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The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one's personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust.〔Carter, William C., and Henry-Jean Servat. 2005. The Proust questionnaire. New York: Assouline.〕 At the end of the nineteenth century, when Proust was still in his teens, he answered a questionnaire in an English-language confession album belonging to his friend Antoinette, daughter of future French President Félix Faure, titled "An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc." At that time, it was popular among English families to answer such a list of questions that revealed the tastes and aspirations of the taker. Proust answered always with enthusiasm. The original manuscript of his answers of 1890, at the time of his volunteer internship or some little time afterwards, titled "by Marcel Proust himself," was found in 1924. It was auctioned on May 27, 2003 for the sum of €102,000. The television host Bernard Pivot, seeing an opportunity for a writer to reveal at the same time aspects of his work and his personality, traditionally submitted his guests to the Proust questionnaire at the end of the French broadcast ''Apostrophes''. Inspired by Bernard Pivot, James Lipton, the host of the TV program ''Inside the Actors Studio'', gives an adapted version of the Proust Questionnaire to his guests. Lipton has often incorrectly characterized the questionnaire itself as an invention of Marcel Proust. A similar questionnaire is regularly seen on the back page of ''Vanity Fair'' magazine, answered by various celebrities. In October 2009, ''Vanity Fair'' launched an (interactive version ) of the questionnaire, that compares your answers to various luminaries.〔Carter, Graydon, and Robert Risko. 2009. Vanity Fair's Proust questionnaire: 101 luminaries ponder love, death, happiness, and the meaning of life. (Pa. ): Rodale.〕 Another version of the questionnaire, as answered by various Canadian authors, is a regular feature on the radio program ''The Next Chapter''. ==The questionnaire== There are two surviving sets of answers to the confession album questions by Proust: the first, from 1885 or 1886, is to an English confessions album, although his answers are in French. The second, from 1891 or 1892, is from a French album, ''Les confidences de salon'' ("Drawing room confessions"), which contains translations of the original questions, lacking some that were in the English version and adding others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Proust Questionnaire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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