Proust in English

‘We must build our hard power because that is the currency of the age,’ Keir Starmer declared to the Munich Security Conference earlier this month. It’s a sentiment shared across Europe, where leaders have cited Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the rise of Chinese power and US insta ...  Afficher plus

‘Information in the early modern world could move no faster than the bodies that carried it,’ John Gallagher wrote recently in the LRB. For a horse and rider, that was just under fifteen kilometres per hour. Yet postal systems, as pioneered by the enterprising Tassis family, were ...  Afficher plus

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) did little of note until he turned 38 years old - but from that point forward, he devoted the rest of his life to writing a masterpiece. The result, the novel In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927, stands as one of the supr ...  Afficher plus

In 2022, France is marking the centenary of the death of the novelist Marcel Proust, the author of the 20th century masterpiece Remembrance of Things Past. In this archive edition of Witness History, Proust's friend, Prince Antoine Bibescu, recalls his conversations with the auth ...  Afficher plus

A l’occasion du centenaire de la disparition de Marcel Proust, retour sur une drôle d’histoire, révélée par la correspondance entre l’écrivain et son ami d’enfance, le banquier Horace Finaly. Une histoire à sens unique et intéressée, qui a empoisonné les dernières années de la vi ...  Afficher plus

Après des années de carrière notamment dans l'illustration jeunesse, Edith Chambon vient de publier son premier roman graphique et autobiographie : Ma Famille Imaginaire. À partir de sa propre histoire familiale, l'autrice parle des secrets familiaux, notamment de l'inceste, e ...