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 Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Dodie Smith
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...
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
Claire Tomalin called it a novel about a hate affair...
Fictionalization Germaine de Staël
Benjamin Constant , formerly the lover of GS , represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man,
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35.
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and...
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
Stanley Burnshaw fought to persuade Holt, Rinehart and Winston to re-issue the work, but again no British publisher...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Stevenson
She found motherhood a struggle. She tried to keep up her serious reading (James , Hardy , Proust ) while breast-feeding, and to serve an elegant candlelit supper each evening while the baby cried...
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
The Princesse hosted a salon at 57 Avenue Henri-Martin attended by Anna de Noailles , Cocteau , Paul Valéry , and Proust , who incorporated some of his perceptions of the gatherings into A la...
Residence Violet Trefusis
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...
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW published By Way of Sainte-Beuve, her translation of Marcel Proust 's Contre Sainte-Beuve.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
270
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rebecca West
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.
British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 739
RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...
Textual Production Edith Wharton
EW published a volume of critical essays entitled The Writing of Fiction; its reading of Proust has been particularly praised.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1240 (22 October 1925): 696
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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