In the Faber Book of Diaries for this date (December 13th) in 1943, Henry “Chips” Channon is recorded as having a “Proustian moment” in a London shop. Channon (1897–1958) was an American-born British ...

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A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is raising money to buy it. By Elaine Sciolino Reporting from Paris One of the ...

Dawn had crept serenely over the city. The shadows draped over the avenues were slowly receding to usher in a beautiful, bright morning. It was June, and the few early risers on their way to set up ...

“Health in the Time of Marcel Proust” will showcase literature, medical equipment, archival materials and more from the Belle Époque, France’s golden age. The dramatic changes include technological ...

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, ...

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Saramago’s work? He’s not an easy writer. His writing is very dense, particularly the way he plays with punctuation marks. But once you ...

The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a paean to the renowned Parisian cemetery, Père Lachaise. This slim volume by Benoît Gallot, its enthusiastic head conservator since 2018, is as crammed with quirky ...

Marcel Proust’s masterwork In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes from 1913 through 1927, is as much a rumination on the slip and slide of time as it is a time capsule. In it is bottled ...

In Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913–27), time is a fluid construct, an illusion. The seven-volume novel unravels the musings and recollections of an unnamed narrator for whom even the ...