Beyond all the talk about memory and madeleines it may be hard to put a finger on him, but Proust moves modern literature forward with his "stream of consciousness" style, and that puts us in an excellent position to start walking through Paris. The author complicitly co-stars in his own story alongside his ultra-posh neighborhood. Part In Search of Lost Time, part bio, we meet in front of 9 Boulevard Malesherbes, close to the Madeleine metro stop, and welcome you to the upper society of salons and silken dalliance. This is an exclusive look into the life and death of a man we don't know well but should.