Marcel proust

William Benton on a passage from in the seventh volume (“Time Regained”) of the French author Marcel Proust’s autobiographical novel “In Search of Lost Time.”

One hundred years after Proust's great novel was published Patrick McGuinness argues we can all have our madeleine moment

Marcel Proust by Richard Linder, 1950.

Scott Moncrieff's English translation of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title as Remembrance of Things Past is not, however, considered a high point. William C. Carter explores the two men's correspondence on this somewhat sticky issue and how the Shakespearean title missed the mark regarding Proust's theory of memory.

The Morgan celebrates the 1913 publication of Swann's Way with a fascinating selection of the author's notebooks, preliminary drafts, galley-proofs, and other documents from the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

The year before, at an evening party, he had heard a piece of music played on the piano and violin. At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. . . . But then at a certain moment, without being able to distinguish any clear outline, or to give a name to what was pleasing him, suddenly enraptured, he had tried to grasp the phrase or harmony—he did not know which—that had just been played and that had opened and expanded his soul, as…

Mistral continues its 21st season with 'In Search of Marcel Proust' this weekend with a pair of concerts North of Boston.

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