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 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, ...

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 ...

Bound into the back of the copy auctioned by Sotheby’s are letters Proust sent to friends in the Parisian press, asking them to publish glowing reviews of the book. A rare edition of Swann’s Way by ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There's something about centenaries; something solid, rounded, significant. Something about the edge of memory – where we risk ...

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 ...

Swann's Way smashed the previous record for a piece of French literature held by the poet Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal" ("The Flowers of Evil"), a copy of which sold for 775,000 euros nine ...

PROUST: THE LATER YEARS by George D. Painter. 424 pages. Atlantic-Little Brown. $7.50. It was 1922. In a hermetically sealed bedroom at 44 rue Hamelin in Paris, the brilliant, untidy life of Valentin ...