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Proust Ink is a website devoted to studying and celebrating the life and works of Marcel Proust
while enjoying what he calls “the revealing smile of art."

Some words about us

William C. Carter is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French. His biography Marcel Proust: A Life was selected as a “Notable Book of 2000” by The New York Times. Harold Bloom has written that Carter is “Proust’s definitive biographer” and that his most recent book, Proust in Love, is “a marvelous study of the comic splendor of the great novelist’s vision of human eros and its discontents.” He co-produced the award-winning documentary film Marcel Proust: A Writer’s Life. Clips and stills from the film may be viewed on this site.

Nicolas D. Drogoul is a student at the U. of Alabama at Birmingham, majoring in French and engineering. He spent time in Paris where he developed a passion for photography and began reading Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. In Paris Nicolas studied photography under the American photographer and academic Hally Pancer. He worked with digital and 35mm film to take stunning photographs that others, such as distinguished Alabama photographer Beth Maynor Young has called "beautiful." His latest project, Proust and Photograpy, will take into account previous work done on the role of photography in Proust's novel as well as the most recent book on the topic by the distinguished French photographer Brassï- Proust in the Power of Photography, 2001.

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  • The course is WONDERFUL. You simply cannot appreciate how it has enhanced my reading. I felt fairly alone at time, en face de Proust. This course has opened up a world which I sensed, but which I can now piece together.

    Barbara Pilsbury

  • Your lectures have widened my understanding and given me new things to think about. My sincere thanks to you and to Nic. This course has obviously been a labor of love for you two as the course fee is in no way proportionate to the service provided by you.

    Cathy Lamb

  • I am enjoying your fascinating first lecture.

    Peter Albert McKay

  • Thank you, Bill. I am just getting started, have always wanted to read Proust but felt I needed a structured environment. What a great thing for you to do.

    Denise Middlebrooks

  • Enjoying the course—well done. This was my second reading of Proust and to be able to do this within the context of a course gave me so much more than reading it alone. This was fun!

    Deborah Hendel

  • Just writing to tell you that I am loving doing the course—and finally reading Proust properly, something I have wanted to do since living in Paris many years ago. Your guidance, intimate knowledge, and passion for Proust are inspirational.

    Brita Lomba