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, ...

In “Living and Dying With Marcel Proust,” Christopher Prendergast presents an appreciation and a guide to the writer and his masterpiece. By Edmund White LIVING AND DYING WITH MARCEL PROUST by ...

"My book is a painting," Marcel Proust said, as he neared the end of his life and life’s work. The book, "In Search of Lost Time," has also been compared to a cathedral, a kaleidoscope, the ...

Brazilian art collector and writer Pedro Correa do Lago poses after an AFP interview at his house in Rio de Janeiro - Copyright AFP Louisa GOULIAMAKI Brazilian art ...

BOSTON ADVENTURE—Jean Stafford—Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). Every now & then, since Marcel Proust’s death in 1922, a young American writes urbanely and philosophically about his or her past in long, ...

Searching for a publisher in early 1913, Marcel Proust felt the pressures of mortality. “I’ve been working on this book for a long time,” he wrote a friend. “Now it is clamoring for a tomb that can be ...

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Saramago’s work? He’s not an easy writer. His writing is very dense, particularly the way he plays with punctuation marks. But once you ...

So there's this new English translation of a French graphic novel adaptation of Swann's Way, the first of seven novels in Marcel Proust's masterwork, In Search of Lost Time. Got all that? First there ...

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 ...

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 ...

"My book is a painting," Marcel Proust said, as he neared the end of his life and life’s work. The book, "In Search of Lost Time," has also been compared to a cathedral, a kaleidoscope, the ...