The University of Alabama at Birmingham will commemorate the centennial of “Swann’s Way,” the first volume of renowned French writer Marcel Proust’s classic “In Search of Lost Time,” with a special ...

Most people think finishing a thousand-page novel is an impressive feat. Honestly, after looking at what some of history's most ambitious writers actually produced, a thousand pages starts to feel ...

Marcel Proust’s masterwork In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes from 1913 through 1927, is as much a rumination on the slip and slide of time as it is a time capsule. In it is bottled ...

THE correlation between a writer’s experience and his writing, which is seldom coincidental, was never less so than in the case of Marcel Proust. No novelist has made more exhaustive use of the first ...

ONLY the outer picture of Marcel Proust’s life is here drawn. The representation of his work and his accomplishment would require more space and more time. But I take this opportunity to urge you to ...

During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter ...

THE PAST RECAPTURED—Marcel Proust —A. & C. Boni. Proustians, whose numbers are growing in all Western lands, say that the late great Marcel Proust (died Nov. 18, 1922), half-Jew, half-snob, ...

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The sheer pleasure of baked goods is always transportive. By Hanya Yanagihara A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is ...