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 na...
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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 o...
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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 ...
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In this essay, Epstein offers a survey of critical commentary on Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.
What do we come away with when we read not merely a masterpiece but a masterwork of lite...
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In the following essay, Stewart argues against the notion that Proust's masterwork is a memoir rooted in nostalgia.
You can return to a book, but you cannot return to yourself. I had remembe...
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In the following essay, Schmid discusses real historical events which are referred to in Remembrance of Things Past.
Marcel Proust has often been described as apolitical.1 It is true that apart fro...
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In the following essay Mackenzie explores the contradictory patterns of dualism and fragmentation in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.
Man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, beca...
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In the following essay, Nayman compares the work of Mishima to Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, focusing on the conflict between writing and action, and the search for self-realization.
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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...
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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...
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Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
(Valentin-) (Louis-George-Eugene-)Marcel Proust
Critical Essay by Joseph Epstein
Proust Positive! My Marcel Party Makes Major Waves
