Marcel Proust was born on this day in 1871. Happy 143rd birthday, Marcel Proust! These days Proust is known as a genius, the author of the brilliant, mammoth novel, known as both “Remembrance of ...
Everyone knows In Search of Lost Time, but few know that Marcel Proust started on poetry and kept at it throughout his life. For the centennial of Swann’s Way, editor Harold Augenbraum brought ...
This cozy documentary sits in with a group of older readers in Buenos Aires who gather at a cafe to savor Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” By Nicolas Rapold Leïla Slimani, winner of France’s ...
MORE than 80 years after his death, Marcel Proust remains one of the most written-about writers of the 20th century. Seemingly every aspect of his life and work has been examined in detail. The more ...
France's Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago this week, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. To mark the anniversary, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is hosting a major ...
One hundred years ago, French publishers were busy rejecting a wordy, novelistic treatise on childhood, memory and society by a Parisian dandy and dilettante named Marcel Proust. In November, 1913, ...
Author of the monumental multivolume novel In Search of Lost Time. High modernist of the first order and reclusive titan of French letters. And, if one Canadian scholar is correct, quite the dapper ...
The University of Illinois commemorates the centennial of the First World War by digitizing the work of Marcel Proust. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you ...
Marcel Proust spent the last eight years of his life in bed, nursing his chronic asthma and writing one of the great books of the 20th century. His life as a social butterfly over, he undertook what ...
The literary world honors French writer Marcel Proust on his 150th birthday. But who reads his works today? The seven-volume novel "In Search for Lost Time" is a daunting epic. A French national ...
"The telephone, a supernatural instrument before whose miracles we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or order an ice cream,” wrote Marcel ...
A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is raising money to buy it. By Elaine Sciolino This cozy documentary sits in ...