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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Happily for Richardson, reviews were positive. Reviewers praised her artistry and adventurousness, and compared her favourably with Proust
. |
| Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | During the early part of ICB
's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer
was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger... |
| Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Her friend Graham Greene
hastened to offer his usual compliment of best-since-Memento Mori—this time after reading only the first three pages. Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf. 399 |
| Literary responses | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca was DDM
's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 66 |
| Literary responses | Christina Stead | In 1963 Eldon Branda
produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg. 445 |
| Literary responses | Natalie Clifford Barney | Marcel Proust
, in the final stages of writing Sodome et Gomorrhe, read Pensées d'une Amazone and initiated correspondence with NCB
, hoping to learn more about lesbianism. Telling her that her book was... |
| Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | GS
was disappointed at the small enthusiasm the book generated when it was published. Only Marianne Moore
reviewed it favourably. Katherine Anne Porter
despaired of its length and density, but argued that to shorten it... |
| Literary responses | Mavis Gallant | On the subject of Gallant's first The New Yorker story, Madeline's Birthday, Mordecai Richler
—signing his name as Mordy—wrote to Douglas M. Gibson
to say i saw mavis's story in the new yorker. i'm... |
| Literary responses | Sybille Bedford | Nancy Mitford
called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read. Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin. prelims Dirda, Michael. “Sips from the finest vintage”. Guardian Weekly, p. 25. 25 |
| Occupation | A. S. Byatt | These were the years during which, she later said, she was obsessed with Proust
. Byatt, A. S. A. S. Byatt. http://www.asbyatt.com/. |
| politics | Ling Shuhua | In mid-1938, LS and her family left Wuhan, by then under frequent bombing by the Japanese, for the town of Leshan (where many members of Wuhan University
fled). LS's reading included Proust
's Swann's... |
| Publishing | Pamela Hansford Johnson | A volume appeared as Six Proust
Reconstructions of PHJ
's dramatic sketches written for the radio, with the cast-lists and excerpts from the musical scores. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 399 |
| Publishing | Tillie Olsen | Tillie Lerner, later TO
, was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf
and Donald Klopfer
, founders of... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
contributed to Marcel Proust, an expensive volume with illustrations, edited by Peter Quennell
, an essay entitled The Art of Bergotte. Brown, Spencer Curtis, and Elizabeth Bowen. “Foreword”. Pictures and Conversations, Alfred A. Knopf, p. vii - xlii. ix |
| Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
first read Proust
(Swann's Way) in December 1922. She devoted much time to her reading and thinking about Proust, and relished his writing for being a thousand things at once, with the... |
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