Pascale Dhombres – Proust et son banquier

{"title":"Pascale Dhombres – Proust et son banquier","description":"\u003Cp data-start=\u00220\u0022 data-end=\u0022365\u0022\u003EPascale 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 \u003Cem data-start=\u0022162\u0022 data-end=\u0022186\u0022\u003EIn Search of Lost Time\u003C\/em\u003E 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp data-start=\u0022367\u0022 data-end=\u0022805\u0022 data-is-last-node=\u0022\u0022 data-is-only-node=\u0022\u0022\u003EShe found her way back to Proust through the discovery of the writer\u2019s correspondence with his banker. Proust\u2014an heir, a rentier, and a formidable speculator\u2014proves 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp data-start=\u0022367\u0022 data-end=\u0022805\u0022 data-is-last-node=\u0022\u0022 data-is-only-node=\u0022\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn French.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","start_date":"2025-12-09","end_date":"2025-12-09","date":"Tuesday 9 December, 12:00","timings":[{"timing_start_date":"20251209T110000Z","timing_end_date":"20251209T130000Z"}]}