Les Invités de Marcel Proust

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Patrick Alexander

Author of Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time: A Reader’s Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past, New York: Vintage, 2009. He focuses on making Marcel Proust’s novel accessible to a new generation of non-academic readers in the twenty-first century.

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James Connelly

A Boston attorney working in the field of energy and public utility law in the U.S., the Middle East, and Asia, James Connelly has, since reading Swann's Way as an undergraduate, nurtured and indulged an interest in Marcel Proust and his works.

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Cynthia Gamble

Cynthia Gamble, a noted authority on Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, and the Belle Époque, is vice-chairman of the Ruskin Society, and Visiting Fellow at The Ruskin Library and Research Centre at the University of Lancaster, and a Companion of the Guild of St George.

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Mary Ann Caws

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author of Marcel Proust

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Alan Halliday

Alan Halliday, (b. 1952) is an internationally established British artist, (see The Dictionary of British Artists since 1945). Writing in The Times, the art critic John Russell Taylor said, “Halliday paints what obsesses him. His style is boldly calligraphic.

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Jacques Falce

Jacques Falce, describes himself with too much modesty, as a retried engineer, member of the Cercle littéraire proustien de Cabourg-Balbec, residing in Saint Chamond-Loire, France.

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David Richardson

Landscape, not portraiture, has been my primary genre as a painter. My notable illustration experience were drawings made for the first two articles of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail”, published in Rolling Stone Magazine in 1972.

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Drew Watson

Drew Watson, tenor, is quickly establishing himself as an accomplished singer of opera, concert, and sacred literature. He frequently performs with Opera Birmingham and has appeared in numerous productions with the company, including Samson et Dalila, La Cenerentola, La Bohème, Turandot, La Traviata, Aïda, and Le Nozze di Figaro.

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Elyane Dezon-Jones

Estelle Monbrun is the nom de plume of a university professor, Elyane Dezon-Jones, who taught at Barnard college and Washington University. She served as the editor-in-chief of Bulletin de la Société des Amis de Marcel Proust for seven years, and has published critical editions of Proust’s Le Côté de Guermantes and Du côté de chez Swann.

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