Marcel Proust

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

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...

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...

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 ?).

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...

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...

These are Le féminin et le sacré (which arose out of a correspondence on these topics with Catherine Clément ), and was translated by Jane Marie Todd as The Feminine and the Sacred, 2001);...

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...

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...

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...

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

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