Being that it is my favourite part of the mag...

I decided to ask myself some of the famous Proust questions - a series of questions posed to find out about people’s lives, thoughts, values and experience. 

Having recently risen to prominence in the pages of Vanity Fair, you’d be forgiven for thinking that VF or someone called Mr. Proust compiled The Proust Questionnaire. In fact, it began, as a parlor game among the novelist’s bourgeois crowd in Paris and it was the daughter of the 19th-century French president, Félix Faure, who popularized the game. Antoinette Faure’s album was a red leather journal that contained entries from many in her social circle. She’d invite friends over for tea and cake and then ask them each a set of identical questions. Her friends would write their answers in her red book.

Marcel Proust was one such who friend, who filled out the questionnaire twice —first when he was 14 and then again at 20. Eventually he published his answers in1892 in an article for La Revue Illustrée XV, resulting in his name being linked forever more with the game as it was adopted more widely.  Today the questions are used to conduct interviews and help people learn about themselves.

And so we begin…