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He doesn’t want this “Summertime” to be a remembrance of things past, but a midcentury modernist call to action.

The trigger of the eponymous feud is the November 1975 publication in Esquire magazine of “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a chapter of Capote’s very unfinished, way-past-deadline “Answered Prayers,” the social novel he predicted would be a “masterpiece” and liked to liken to Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past.”

GERWIG: In “Remembrance of Things Past,” in “Swann’s Way,” he is literally thrown back into his childhood through the taste of the madeleine.

As a teenager, he said, he read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in a day and Marcel Proust’s monumental “Remembrance of Things Past” in a week.

Could the flood of memories that for Proust became “Remembrance of Things Past” been stirred not by the taste of a tea-soaked petite madeleine — but instead, as in historian Richard Rabinowitz’s deeply moving family memoir, “Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story,” by the accidental discovery of a nearly century-old wooden-handled bottle opener?