Books
Marcel Proust was born on this day in 1871. Happy 143rd birthday, Marcel Proust!
July 10, 2014
Swann’s Way Marcel Proust Translated from the French by Lydia Davis Viking: 468 pp., $27.95 “In Search of Lost Time” is the longest novel in the world.
Dec. 14, 2003
In the decades that have elapsed since his death in 1922, critics and scholars have analyzed Marcel Proust’s life in minute detail to uncover the experiences he transformed into “Remembrance of Things Past,” and Ronald Hayman’s new attempt is well written and scrupulously documented.
Nov. 11, 1990
MARCEL PROUST; by Edmund White; Lipper / Viking $19.95, 166 pages
Jan. 22, 1999
Television
Harold Pinter’s massive screenplay adaptation of Marcel Proust’s novel “Remembrance of Things Past” remains unfilmed.
April 30, 1993
MARCEL PROUST: A Life By William C. Carter; Yale University Press: 946 pp., $35
April 2, 2000
Just last Oct. 5, the most important work by the great French novelist Marcel Proust fell out of copyright protection and into the public domain.
Jan. 18, 1988
Proust at the Majestic The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris Richard Davenport-Hines Bloomsbury: 360 pp., $24.95 Proust in Love William C. Carter Yale University Press: 252 pp., $26
June 6, 2006
Entertainment & Arts
The World of Proust As Seen by Paul Nadar Edited by Anne-Marie Bernard MIT Press: 160 pp., $34.95 * Toward the end of a tour of Marcel Proust’s childhood home in Illiers-Combray, the visitor is led up a stairway into a large empty attic where four walls are lined with unframed photographic portraits of some of the most eminent socialites of fin de siecle Paris.
Dec. 22, 2002
Searching for Proust in his papers -- and finding his mother
Feb. 27, 2013