PROUST'S QUESTIONNAIRE

Your favourite virtue:
Your favourite qualities in a man:
Your favourite qualities in a woman:
Your chief characteristic:
What you appreciate the most in your friends:
Your main fault:
Your occupation:
Your idea of happiness:
Your idea of misery:
If not yourself, who would you be?
Where would you like to live:
Your favourite colour:
Your favourite flower:
Your favourite bird:
Your favourite prose authors:
Your favourite poets:
Your favourite heros in fiction:
Your favourite heroines in fiction:
Your favourite painters:
Your favourite composers:

Other interesting questions:
Your favourite occupation (e.g. horseback riding):
Your favourite heroes in real life:
Your favourite heroines in real life:
Your favourite food:
Your favourite drink:
Your pet aversion:
Your favourite names:
What characters in history do you most dislike?
What is your present state of mind?
For what fault have you the most tolerance?
Your favourite motto:


This is a regular feature in The Next Chapter, a CBC radio show with Shelagh Rogers interviewing authors.

It was a questionaire filled out by Marcel Proust in 1890, in the form of a "confession album" that were more common at that time, and in his case, in English.

It is meant to be filled out on different occasions, given a sense of who you are at a certain point in time, and over time.