Marcel Proust

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...

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

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...

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 .

PHJ includes among her topics Edith Sitwell , Shakespeare , Ivy Compton-Burnett , and Proust : these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes...

Proust provides JK with new approaches to many of her recurring interests: the book is heterogeneous, without any organising thread of argument. She takes a psychoanalytical view of Proust 's fictional characters, and discusses his...

This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...

The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB 's encounters with Oscar Wilde , Anatole France , Remy de Gourmont , Marcel Proust , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Max Jacob , and others. The second part...

ML defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. An ecstatic state is one in which...

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.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

This booklet presents a literary analysis of the character Albertine who appears (mainly in volume 5) in Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu. It upholds the transposition theory that Albertine is based...

Having bought an entire set of Proust when one of her books brought in more money than usual, midway in the second world war, PHJ lectured on him as one of her favourite subjects.