Could Marcel Proust draw? In another time -- and certainly with the same comforting level of obscurity and self-obsession he was no doubt accustomed to -- Proust might have made a pretty good graphic ...
PROUST: THE EARLY YEARS (435 pp.) —George D. Painfer—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($6.50). Life is the novelist’s first draft. This elementary fact periodically brings out the detective in some critics and ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...