Thierry Laget, Proust, prix Goncourt. Une émeute littéraire

This review highlights the approach of the critic Thierry Laget, who is recognized for adding to the knowledge about a famous episode in twentieth-century literary history: the 1919 Prix Goncourt. Reviewing the facts about what constituted an “émeute littéraire” (or “literary riot”), this account also provides a look at how, a century later, the event may be viewed.