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, ...

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 ...

Few writers hold the world’s attention long enough for their 150th birthday to qualify as an event. But then, it’s hard to think of a novelist who has shaped readers’ imaginations as profoundly as ...

"My book is a painting," Marcel Proust said, as he neared the end of his life and life’s work. The book, "In Search of Lost Time," has also been compared to a cathedral, a kaleidoscope, the ...

Perry Anderson is an intellectual historian with a special interest in Marxism. As a former editor of Britain’s New Left Review, a political slant has been central to his work since the early 1960s.

PROUST: THE LATER YEARS by George D. Painter. 424 pages. Atlantic-Little Brown. $7.50. It was 1922. In a hermetically sealed bedroom at 44 rue Hamelin in Paris, the brilliant, untidy life of Valentin ...

"My book is a painting," Marcel Proust said, as he neared the end of his life and life’s work. The book, "In Search of Lost Time," has also been compared to a cathedral, a kaleidoscope, the ...