Marcel Proust

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Standard Name: Proust, Marcel
French novelist, whose novel sequence A la recherche du temps perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, blends memory, invention, and psychological study of the human response to time passing. It has been almost immeasurably influential.

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Natalie Clifford Barney
The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB 's encounters with Oscar Wilde , Anatole France , Remy de Gourmont , Marcel Proust , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Max Jacob , and others. The second part...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Pamela Hansford Johnson
Having bought an entire set of Proust when one of her books brought in more money than usual, midway in the second world war, PHJ lectured on him as one of her favourite subjects.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
201
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rebecca West
This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.
British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 739
RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ includes among her topics Edith Sitwell , Shakespeare , Ivy Compton-Burnett , and Proust : these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Carson
This booklet presents a literary analysis of the character Albertine who appears (mainly in volume 5) in Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu. It upholds the transposition theory that Albertine is based...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia Kristeva
Proust provides JK with new approaches to many of her recurring interests: the book is heterogeneous, without any organising thread of argument. She takes a psychoanalytical view of Proust 's fictional characters, and discusses his...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marghanita Laski
ML defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source.
Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press.
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An ecstatic state is one in which...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Pinter's screenplay for Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu (undertaken for his close cinema associate Joseph Losey ) was never made as a film. It was, however, published in 1972, and was later...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
She never completed this work, but on the day before she died she said to Curtis Brown, I want it published.
Brown, Spencer Curtis, and Elizabeth Bowen. “Foreword”. Pictures and Conversations, Alfred A. Knopf, p. vii - xlii.
viii
With it he collected The Move-In, a riveting opening chapter of an...
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW published By Way of Sainte-Beuve, her translation of Marcel Proust 's Contre Sainte-Beuve.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
270
Textual Production Edith Wharton
EW published a volume of critical essays entitled The Writing of Fiction; its reading of Proust has been particularly praised.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1240 (22 October 1925): 696
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
9
Textual Production Catherine Carswell
For the next couple of years Carswell's only completed literary work was an essay on women in Proust that she contributed to the memorial volume on Proust collected by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff .
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Biography and Other Posthumous Papers, 1stst ed, Secker and Warburg, p. ix - xxi.
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Textual Production Julia Kristeva
JK 's next work of criticism was entitled Le Temps sensible: Proust et l'expérience littéraire.
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
Volat, Hélène. Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography. http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~hvolat/kristeva/kristeva.htm.
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
41-2, 90, 212

Timeline

1928: Edwin Muir published The Structure of the...

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1928

Edwin Muir published The Structure of the Novel.

1946: Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German,...

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1946

Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German, the influential study which became in its English translation, 1953, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He wrote it at Istanbul, as a Jewish refugee...

By July 1955: Françoise Sagan, aged eighteen, repeated...

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By July 1955

Françoise Sagan , aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novelBonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash .

Texts

Proust, Marcel. À L’Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs. Gallimard, 1919.
Proust, Marcel. Albertine Disparue. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925.
Proust, Marcel. By Way of Sainte-Beuve. Translator Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Chatto and Windus, 1958.
Proust, Marcel. Du Côté de Chez Swann. 1913.
Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1923.
Proust, Marcel. Le Côté de Guermantes. Gallimard, 1920.
Proust, Marcel. Le Côté de Guermantes II (Sodome et Gomorrhe I). Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921.
Proust, Marcel. Le Temps Retrouvé. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927.
Proust, Marcel. Les Plaisirs et les Jours. 1896.
Proust, Marcel. Sodome et Gomorrhe. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922.