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 ...

France’s Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. France’s Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the ...

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, ...

Few writers hold the world’s attention long enough for their 150th birthday to qualify as an event. But then, it’s hard to think of a novelist who has shaped readers’ imaginations as profoundly as ...

The decadently deductive Marcel Proust, the “first to faithfully describe memory,” composed prose that neuroscientists would do well to read, writes Jonah Lehrer, a contributing editor of the magazine ...

In Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913–27), time is a fluid construct, an illusion. The seven-volume novel unravels the musings and recollections of an unnamed narrator for whom even the ...

Journalist Chris Hedges and philosopher Justin E. H. Smith discuss Marcel Proust’s magnum opus, ‘In Search of Lost Time,’ on the centennial of the author’s death. Justin E. H. Smith is a professor of ...

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 ...