Most people think finishing a thousand-page novel is an impressive feat. Honestly, after looking at what some of history's most ambitious writers actually produced, a thousand pages starts to feel ...

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 ...

Here’s a delicious little bonbon for those who like sophisticated humor. The deeper your knowledge of French literature and history, the more fully you’ll be able to appreciate the delicate weaponry ...

France’s Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. France’s Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the ...

In “Living and Dying With Marcel Proust,” Christopher Prendergast presents an appreciation and a guide to the writer and his masterpiece. By Edmund White LIVING AND DYING WITH MARCEL PROUST by ...

Andre Aciman is the author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir" and "False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory." Toward the end of a tour of Marcel Proust’s childhood home in Illiers-Combray, the visitor is led ...

The sheer pleasure of baked goods is always transportive. By Hanya Yanagihara A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is ...

One night in Paris in the winter of 1916, at around 11 p.m., the distinguished French violinist and quartet leader Gaston Poulet was already in his pajamas when the doorbell rang. He opened it to find ...