Abstract: Although Marcel Proust’s work has only inspired a few cinematic adaptations, a survey would easily show that the Recherche remains one of the major hypertexts for the cultural productions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Two rewritings of the same Proustian motif, the death of Bergotte, bear witness to this: Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (1971), and Jon Jost’s All the Vermeers in New York (1990).
