William Carter’s “Proust in Love” (Yale University Press, 280 pages, $26) is what Mary Ann Caws, author of an innovative biography of Marcel Proust, says it is: the product of extensive knowledge that ...
In search of letters by Marcel Proust at Brandeis University? Mais oui! Of the 23 letters that Brandeis possesses, all are handwritten by Proust on cream-colored laid paper, except for one, which is ...
In the summer of 1909, a frail, asthmatic failure retired to a cork-lined room in Paris and began writing a novel about time and memory. Over the next 15 years, Marcel Proust toiled to create the ...