Pascale Dhombres studied in Paris under Julia Kristeva and in Montreal with William Readings and Walter Moser. She holds a PhD focused on the connections between In Search of Lost Time and phenomenology. After spending several years in Mexico, Ethiopia, and Georgia, she earned an MBA from Boston University and left the literary world to become a wealth manager.
She found her way back to Proust through the discovery of the writer’s correspondence with his banker. Proust—an heir, a rentier, and a formidable speculator—proves unpredictable in his exchanges with the conservative and talented Lionel Hauser. While Hauser favors short- and medium-term strategies, Proust insists on the very long term, convinced that the irrational and the emotional lie at the very heart of what it means to be human.
In French.
