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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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politics | Ling Shuhua | 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... |
Occupation | A. S. Byatt | These were the years during which, she later said, she was obsessed with Proust
. |
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 |
Literary responses | Natalie Clifford Barney | 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... |
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... |
Literary responses | Sybille Bedford | Nancy Mitford
called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read. Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin. prelims Dirda, Michael. “Sips from the finest vintage”. Guardian Weekly, p. 25. 25 |
Literary responses | Mavis Gallant | 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... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | 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... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | 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... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | 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... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Happily for Richardson, reviews were positive. Reviewers praised her artistry and adventurousness, and compared her favourably with Proust
. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 257 |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | 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... |
Literary responses | Daphne Du Maurier | 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. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 66 |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | Her omnivorous reading during the last year of her degree included the major modern novelists, notably including Proust
and Woolf
(the darling dangerous woman who made her feel quite incapable of writing anything straight... |
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