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 ...

A mother looms over the narrator — figuratively and literally — in Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, the seven-volume novel “In Search of Lost Time.” Not that it’s a big surprise, but thanks to an exhibit ...

The old quarrel between critics and artists (especially painters) plays out with exuberance in two pamphlet-like essays now available from David Zwirner Books. Adding to their charm, both works were ...

Here’s a delicious little bonbon for those who like sophisticated humor. The deeper your knowledge of French literature and history, the more fully you’ll be able to appreciate the delicate weaponry ...

It is no surprise, given the pace at which he wrote, and the quantity produced, that the occasional batch of previously undiscovered letters should turn up. This new translation comprises 26 of them.

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 ...

Ann Napolitano visits Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home in Savannah. “Is it too much of a stretch to say that deconstruction was at some level an allegory of personal exclusion?” Emily Eakin on how ...

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 ...