The Proust family chez Tante Léonie. Patricia Mante-Proust, a descendant of Proust, visited us in Birmingham with her parents when she was very young. The visit (1988) corresponded with a production of Proust by Frank and Jane Trechsel at the Festival Theater and the Prousts were in the audience. This article was posted by L'Echo Républicain by Joel Anfray.
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2013 Calendar
A calendar of events related to the centennial of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time published in 1913.
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Les Invités de M.P.
A place to introduce people who have made important contributions to Proust studies or whose own creations intersect with Proust and his works.
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Proust A - Z
An ambitious undertaking that will eventually be an on-line encyclopedia of the major aspects of the writer's life and works.
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Quotable Proust
This section contains some of the novelist's "greatest hits," trenchant and often amusing observations about the human condition.
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Proust in the News
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The Wall Street Journal: You Are What You Read. No one should read Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" for the first time. A first reading, however carefully conducted, cannot hope to unlock the book's complexity, its depth, its inexhaustible richness. This is a lucid exposition of how Proust put his reading to work in the creation of "In Search of Lost Time."
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Monsieur Proust's Library. Anka Muhlstein, one of the Center for Fiction's favorite speakers is back to talk about her new book, Monsieur Proust's Library.
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