Andre Aciman is the author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir" and "False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory." Toward the end of a tour of Marcel Proust’s childhood home in Illiers-Combray, the visitor is led ...

In the bedroom, where the young, disconsolate Marcel Proust tried to go to sleep, in one of the most famous opening passages in literature, the magic lantern still sits near his curtained-off trundle ...

Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter professor in humanities, professor of philosophy and professor of comparative literature at Princeton. He is the author of several books, including "Nietzsche: ...

THE correlation between a writer’s experience and his writing, which is seldom coincidental, was never less so than in the case of Marcel Proust. No novelist has made more exhaustive use of the first ...

Aside from Eve’s apple and Persephone’s pomegranate, there are few edibles in literature more famous than the tea-drenched madeleine that awakens Proust’s memory of childhood in Remembrance of Things ...

The first lines of the first volume set us firmly in the hero’s childhood, with the immutable sentence “For a long time I would go to bed early.” (Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure.) And so, ...

The Proustian Newsletter gives an update each year on the work undertaken by the Proust team of the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts (CNRS): inventory, classification, transcription and ...

During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper explores the pre-figurations of the Great War in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Through a set of cross-disciplinary ...