Marcel Proust

Her friend Graham Greene hastened to offer his usual compliment of best-since-Memento Mori—this time after reading only the first three pages.Claire Tomalin called it a novel about a hate affair...

Rebecca was DDM 's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time.The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...

Pilgrimage and its author have been grouped with various other writers and literary methods, particularly with Virginia Woolf , James Joyce , and Marcel Proust , who set out to explore and record linked elements...

Marcel Proust , in the final stages of writing Sodome et Gomorrhe, read Pensées d'une Amazone and initiated correspondence with NCB , hoping to learn more about lesbianism. Telling her that her book was...

The first reviewer, in the Sunday Observer, found DR 's narrative strategy extraordinary, but remarkably clear. He noted that her leaving the reader without explanations or apologies was not in the least troubling or...

Nancy Mitford called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read.Evelyn Waugh called it entirely delicious . . . cool . . . elegant. Reviewing a reprint for the...

On the subject of Gallant's first The New Yorker story, Madeline's Birthday, Mordecai Richler —signing his name as Mordy—wrote to Douglas M. Gibson to say i saw mavis's story in the new yorker. i'm...

Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce , focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in...

Happily for Richardson, reviews were positive. Reviewers praised her artistry and adventurousness, and compared her favourably with Proust .

These were the years during which, she later said, she was obsessed with Proust .

In mid-1938, LS and her family left Wuhan, by then under frequent bombing by the Japanese, for the town of Leshan (where many members of Wuhan University fled). LS's reading included Proust 's Swann's...

Tillie Lerner, later TO , was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer , founders of...

A volume appeared as Six Proust Reconstructions of PHJ 's dramatic sketches written for the radio, with the cast-lists and excerpts from the musical scores.

EB contributed to Marcel Proust, an expensive volume with illustrations, edited by Peter Quennell , an essay entitled The Art of Bergotte.

The book was a great success in England, where it went into twenty printings during the first several weeks of its release. Soon afterwards it was translated into French by Bussy herself and Roger Martin du Gard