One hundred years ago, on Nov. 18, 1922, Marcel Proust breathed his last in Paris at age 51. His death, from pneumonia and a pulmonary abscess, was perhaps the final nail in the coffin of the ...

Proust died at fifty-one, in Paris, of pneumonia, on November 18th, and last year was the centenary of his death. Since I first read “In Search of Lost Time,” his immense and unique ...

Marcel Proust's groundbreaking 1922 masterpiece In Search of Lost Time is considered daunting and difficult by many, but has been misunderstood and is actually universally appealing, writes Cath ...

Greta Gerwig‘s blockbuster film could have included a bigger appearance from Proust Barbie. According to actress Lucy Boynton, Barbie originally featured more scenes with the character ...

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 ...

With seven translators, in six volumes, the new Penguin edition of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time – all 3,200 pages and 1.25 million words of it – is about to appear as a £75 boxed set.

Marcel Proust, it would seem, is everywhere these days: Two massive biographies published this year (see review), the release in French of an expanded edition of Remembrance of Things Past (more ...

French writer Marcel Proust is often considered one of Europe’s greatest modern authors. He dedicated his life to writing “In Search of Lost Time” – a 3,000-word opus in seven volumes ...

This year marks the centenary of the death of Marcel Proust, whose monumental "In Search of Lost Time" continues to both inspire and frustrate. The novel's major themes—the nature of art and ...

Proust’s status as arguably the premier novelist of the last century is in the sharpest contrast to Powell’s “far from uncontested reputation,” which has issued in no more than a handful ...

I’m fundamentally happy to now live a life where I not only understand references to the Madeleine in Proust but have actually eaten one and at a writing class in the south of France no less.

After reluctantly moving into a tumbledown 17th-century English cottage, Milli Proust has created a gorgeously unruly and varied source for her craft. By Carolyn Asome Photographs by David ...