France’s Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. France’s Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the ...

One hundred years ago, on Nov. 18, 1922, Marcel Proust breathed his last in Paris at age 51. His death, from pneumonia and a pulmonary abscess, was perhaps the final nail in the coffin of the belle ...

This year marks the centenary of the death of Marcel Proust, whose monumental "In Search of Lost Time" continues to both inspire and frustrate. The novel's major themes—the nature of art and ...

Journalist Chris Hedges and philosopher Justin E. H. Smith discuss Marcel Proust’s magnum opus, ‘In Search of Lost Time,’ on the centennial of the author’s death. Justin E. H. Smith is a professor of ...

Searching for a publisher in early 1913, Marcel Proust felt the pressures of mortality. “I’ve been working on this book for a long time,” he wrote a friend. “Now it is clamoring for a tomb that can be ...

In “Living and Dying With Marcel Proust,” Christopher Prendergast presents an appreciation and a guide to the writer and his masterpiece. By Edmund White LIVING AND DYING WITH MARCEL PROUST by ...

The 100th anniversary of Marcel Proust’s death gives us an opportunity to remember his masterwork, In Search of Lost Time, a sort of French-style Divine Comedy first released in 1913. Much like the ...

THE PAST RECAPTURED—Marcel Proust —A. & C. Boni. Proustians, whose numbers are growing in all Western lands, say that the late great Marcel Proust (died Nov. 18, 1922), half-Jew, half-snob, ...

France's Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time -- but few can truthfully claim to have read his 2,400-page masterpiece "In Search of ...