“Marcel Proust: A Life,” by William C. Carter. Yale University Press. 1,024 pages. $35. When considering a book like this, which is more than 1,000 pages, one is forced to confront the sheer size of ...

Fans of literature know his name, but few are aware that the author of "In Search of Lost Time" was of Jewish origin. A new essay argues that had more influence on ...

ONLY the outer picture of Marcel Proust’s life is here drawn. The representation of his work and his accomplishment would require more space and more time. But I take this opportunity to urge you to ...

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 ...

When I was young, and benefited not only from a fresh and eagerly absorptive mind but also from a strong belief that an eternity of life stretched in front of me, I loved to read big books, books of ...

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 ...

William Carter’s “Proust in Love” (Yale University Press, 280 pages, $26) is what Mary Ann Caws, author of an innovative biography of Marcel Proust, says it is: the product of extensive knowledge that ...