Marcel Proust

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...

These were the years during which, she later said, she was obsessed with Proust .

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...

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.The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...

Her friend Graham Greene hastened to offer his usual compliment of best-since-Memento Mori—this time after reading only the first three pages.Claire Tomalin called it a novel about a hate affair...

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...

In 1963 Eldon Branda produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced.Stanley Burnshaw fought to persuade Holt, Rinehart and Winston to re-issue the work, but again no British publisher...

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...

Nancy Mitford called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read.Evelyn Waugh called it entirely delicious . . . cool . . . elegant. Reviewing a reprint for the...

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...

Pilgrimage and its author have been grouped with various other writers and literary methods, particularly with Virginia Woolf , James Joyce , and Marcel Proust , who set out to explore and record linked elements...

The first reviewer, in the Sunday Observer, found DR 's narrative strategy extraordinary, but remarkably clear. He noted that her leaving the reader without explanations or apologies was not in the least troubling or...

Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce , focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in...

Happily for Richardson, reviews were positive. Reviewers praised her artistry and adventurousness, and compared her favourably with Proust .

AD 's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster , T. S. Eliot , Dickinson