Referencing Proust in Annie Guéhenno’s L’épreuve

This essay reads Annie Guéhenno’s L’épreuve as a literary memoir. Guéhenno structures her memoir about her experiences in the French Resistance on key episodes from Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. In this way, we are afforded access into Guéhenno’s inner world as a young agent de liaison.