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 ...

Marcel Proust was born on this day in 1871. Happy 143rd birthday, Marcel Proust! These days Proust is known as a genius, the author of the brilliant, mammoth novel, known as both “Remembrance of ...

Marcel Proust’s madeleine is the cliché cookie—a highbrow reference that’s penetrated pop culture. (Take the Sopranos episode in which Tony’s Proustian madeleine is a slice of cappicola.) The great ...

A Proust Sonata--a multimedia performance that brings Marcel Proust’s literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, to life—is having its New York debut tonight at the French Institute Alliance ...

In 1907 Marcel Proust, then 36 years old, embarked on what would become his masterpiece, a novel about memory and the essence of art. The project grew from one book to a second in 1912 and a third the ...

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 ...

Everyone knows In Search of Lost Time, but few know that Marcel Proust started on poetry and kept at it throughout his life. For the centennial of Swann’s Way, editor Harold Augenbraum brought ...

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 ...

Previous versions of French novel featured stale bread, toast and biscuit as trigger for author’s childhood memories Before Marcel Proust went into raptures over his petites madeleines he was waxing ...

The literary world honors French writer Marcel Proust on his 150th birthday. But who reads his works today? The seven-volume novel "In Search for Lost Time" is a daunting epic. A French national ...