2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
The famous French writer Marcel Proust answered these questions.
You probably remember how at school you exchanged homemade questionnaires - beautiful notebooks with lists of questions. Their content differed from case to case: everyone tried to create such a questionnaire in order to stand out not only with the design, but also with the questions. The more intricate they were, the more interesting it was to answer them.
The tradition of filling out questionnaires, however, originated not in Russian schools, but among visitors to intellectual salons in 19th century England.
High society representatives answered and exchanged questions in special albums. This game quickly spread throughout the world and became popular among different segments of the population. It is known that the questionnaires were filled in by the German philosopher Karl Marx, the American writer John Updike, the Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, the American scientist Arthur Heller and other celebrities.
There are many variants of questionnaires in the world, but the most popular of all was the questionnaire of Marcel Proust, French writer, author of the seven-volume novel "In Search of Lost Time".
Proust himself filled out the questionnaire several times in his life, but only two options have survived to this day: 1886, when he was 13 or 14 years old, and 1891–1892 (19–20 years old). The questionnaires include 24 and 31 questions, respectively. Since the questionnaires repeat each other, we decided to publish a more complete version.
Many of these questions may never have crossed your mind, and you can ask them not only to your friends, but also to yourself.
- What is your most characteristic trait?
- What qualities do you value most in a man?
- What qualities do you value most in a woman?
- What do you value most in your friends?
- What is your main flaw?
- What is your favorite pastime?
- What's your dream of happiness?
- What do you consider the biggest misfortune?
- What would you like to be?
- What country would you like to live in?
- What's your favorite color?
- Favorite flower?
- Favorite bird?
- Favorite writers?
- Favorite poets?
- Favorite literary hero?
- Favorite literary heroines?
- Favorite composers?
- Favorite artists?
- Favorite heroes in real life?
- Favorite heroine in history?
- Favorite names?
- What do you hate the most?
- What historical characters do you despise?
- What moment in military history do you value the most?
- Which reform do you value especially?
- What ability would you like to have?
- How would you like to die?
- What is your state of mind at the moment?
- What vices do you feel most condescending to?
- What's your motto?
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