A long time ago I was hopelessly hung up, and not in a good way, on a certain passage in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. The offending passage, obstructing all the rest of Proust for me, lay in ...
Calum Marsh: Undertakings of an unambiguously intellectual kind tend to both flatter our self-image and paralyze it with concern You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What a whopper: seven volumes, 1.5 million words, and in the Kilmartin translation, 3300 pages long. The first volume also turns 100 ...
“I’m reading Proust”: for months I’ve been saying this to myself in front of the mirror. When asked about what I’ve been up to in lockdown, I drop the phrase nonchalantly, as though A La Recherche du ...
What to give literati who have everything? Eric Karpeles’ Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to ‘In Search of Lost What to give literati who have everything? Eric Karpeles’ Paintings in Proust: A ...
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 ...
“I’m reading Proust”: for months I’ve been saying this to myself in front of the mirror. When asked about what I’ve been up to in lockdown, I drop the phrase nonchalantly, as though A La Recherche du ...