Marcel Proust

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...

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...

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 ?).

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...

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 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...

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...

EW published a volume of critical essays entitled The Writing of Fiction; its reading of Proust has been particularly praised.

AL wrote to T. S. Eliot (editor of The Criterion) offering him an essay on Wilde , something on Proust , and a short story, The Consultation.

She never completed this work, but on the day before she died she said to Curtis Brown, I want it published. With it he collected The Move-In, a riveting opening chapter of an...

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.

Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International production (1990) adapted...

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.