Marcel Proust

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. An ecstatic state is one in which...

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.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...