What do you do when the people upstairs are making too much noise? You might pound on the ceiling with a broomstick. You might complain to the building’s management. Or if you are Marcel Proust, ...

Marcel Proust wrote “the idea of popular art…if not actually dangerous seemed to me ridiculous.” Locked far away from society in his cork-lined room (why cork? Why not? It blocked out useless sound ...

In the summer of 1909, a frail, asthmatic failure retired to a cork-lined room in Paris and began writing a novel about time and memory. Over the next 15 years, Marcel Proust toiled to create the ...

In search of letters by Marcel Proust at Brandeis University? Mais oui! Of the 23 letters that Brandeis possesses, all are handwritten by Proust on cream-colored laid paper, except for one, which is ...