Marcel Proust

In a letter of 1952, Richardson comments that she would have willingly, delightedly translated Le temps retrouvé, the last volume of Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu, after the translator of...

STW published By Way of Sainte-Beuve, her translation of Marcel Proust 's Contre Sainte-Beuve.

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...

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 .

This novel (first of a group written as first-person confessional narratives) is a retrospective memoir of a war between the Reality Principle and the Pleasure Principle, set in a dissolving city in South...

The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how...

Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...

The volume reprints poems from each of HD 's previous collections. The new poems, set in many different places, tend to deal with moments of emotion, often preceding rather than following action. Several reflect her...

It was about a homosexual, though at the time I had never met one, knew very little about queers (maybe I had read something on Proust ?).

Shortly after her husband died, VT visited St Loup de Naud, a hamlet near Provins, France, which is famous for the carvings on its Norman church, and which Proust , an acquaintance from...

An interview with EF appears in Olga Kenyon 's Women Writers Talk, 1989, and she is one of those whose work is included in Bryan Cheyette 's anthology Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and...

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...

The book was a great success in England, where it went into twenty printings during the first several weeks of its release. Soon afterwards it was translated into French by Bussy herself and Roger Martin du Gard

EB contributed to Marcel Proust, an expensive volume with illustrations, edited by Peter Quennell , an essay entitled The Art of Bergotte.

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...