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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Reception Dorothy Richardson
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...
Reception Dorothy Bussy
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
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 Features Ann Quin
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 ?).
Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol.
new series 6
, pp. 63-8.
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Textual Features Margaret Kennedy
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...
Textual Features Angela Carter
This novel (first of a group written as first-person confessional narratives)
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan.
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is a retrospective memoir of a war between the Reality Principle and the Pleasure Principle, set in a dissolving city in South...
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...
Textual Features Helen Dunmore
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...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
She never completed this work, but on the day before she died she said to Curtis Brown, I want it published.
Brown, Spencer Curtis, and Elizabeth Bowen. “Foreword”. Pictures and Conversations, Alfred A. Knopf, p. vii - xlii.
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With it he collected The Move-In, a riveting opening chapter of an...
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.
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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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Textual Production Julia Kristeva
JK 's next work of criticism was entitled Le Temps sensible: Proust et l'expérience littéraire.
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
Volat, Hélène. Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography. http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~hvolat/kristeva/kristeva.htm.
Textual Production Catherine Carswell
For the next couple of years Carswell's only completed literary work was an essay on women in Proust that she contributed to the memorial volume on Proust collected by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff .
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Biography and Other Posthumous Papers, 1stst ed, Secker and Warburg, p. ix - xxi.
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Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
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.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
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