In 1936 Léon Pierre-Quint claimed that the vogue for A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) was ended and that Marcel Proust was destined henceforth to interest only thesis writers at the Sorbonne. He was still the authority...

Marcel Proust is generally considered the greatest French novelist of the twentieth century. His reputation, which derives almost exclusively from the importance of his multivolume novel Remembrance of Things Past (also translated as In Search of Lost...

The French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) ranks as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. He abandoned plot and traditional dramatic action for the vision of the first-person narrator confronting his world. Marcel Proust was born...

Proust, Marcel(1871–1922) The French author Marcel Proust was born and educated in Paris. He lived there all his life, leaving only for short holidays or artistic pilgrimages, most of which were to the great cathedral cities of France. His...

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronounced [maʁsɛl pʁust]) (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of...

Marcel Proust * Edmund White * Lipper/Viking * $19.95 If you're my age, you doubtless remember that series of little orange books with titles such as Ben Franklin, Boy Inventor and Clara Barton, Girl Nurse. I devoured them. You learned so many...

Joachim Neugroschel, translator Marcel Proust: The Complete Short Stories. Cooper Square Press, 201 pages, $25.95 When, in 1896, Marcel Proust published his first book, he was twenty-five. It was a disparate collection of tales, prose poems, verses, portraits, and satires, some written...

At the risk of sounding a bit elitist and foppish, I must confess that while Madge was trying to save Malawian infants, I spent most of last week attempting to conjure up the ghost of Marcel Proust. Faced with the challenge of concocting an event...

At the risk of sounding a bit elitist and foppish, I must confess that while Madge was trying to save Malawian infants, I spent most of last week attempting to conjure up the ghost of Marcel Proust. Faced with the challenge of concocting an...

In the following essay, Thiher explores Proust's attempt to reconcile science and art in his fiction.

In the following essay, Danius explores Proust's use of photographic and cinematic techniques to heighten sensory perception in his essays and fiction.

In the following essay, Rosengarten identifies several literary influences on Pleasures and Regrets.