Marcel Proust

From the archive: celebrating the centenary of Marcel Proust, 1971

Madeleine moments 100 years after the great writer’s birth. By Chris Hall

Chris Hall

01, Aug, 2021 @5:00 AM

The Guardian view on new work from Proust: more lessons from lockdown | Editorial

Editorial: Rediscovered early texts offer fresh insights from an author who created his masterpiece in self-isolation

Editorial

17, Mar, 2021 @6:41 PM

Unseen work by Proust announced as ‘thunderclap’ by French publisher

The Seventy-Five Pages, out next month, contains germinal versions of episodes developed in In Search of Lost Time and opens ‘the primitive Proustian crypt’

Sian Cain

16, Feb, 2021 @3:21 PM

A Saint from Texas by Edmund White review – a delicious, salacious romp

Edmund White’s tale of twin sisters fleeing 50s Texas, one to a convent, the other to a glitzy life in Paris, is full of Proustian insight

Benjamin Evans

10, Aug, 2020 @6:00 AM

Short and sweet: the best stories to read right now

Thought-provoking, intense and consumed in one sitting, do short stories make for a perfect reading experience? Chris Power finds out, and shares the all-time greats

Chris Power

18, Jul, 2020 @9:00 AM

Got 150 hours? Great audiobooks to listen to on lockdown

From Ian McKellen reading Homer to Bill Bryson on the body, these audiobooks can expand your horizons, even when you can’t go out

Steven Poole

25, Mar, 2020 @6:00 AM

Revealed: uncensored diaries of the Tory MP who partied with Nazis and the idle rich

The gossipy writings of Henry ‘Chips’ Channon who recorded the decadence of interwar London are to appear in full at last

Donna Ferguson

03, Nov, 2019 @9:06 AM

Lie With Me by Philippe Besson review – a French bestseller

Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class, shame and secrecy

Tessa Hadley

06, Sep, 2019 @7:58 AM

Lost airtime? BBC Radio 4’s search for Proust’s masterpiece

The vast scope of À la Récherche du Temps Perdu was always going to make 10 hours seem too short – but there were highlights to savour

Alex Clark

27, Aug, 2019 @1:35 PM

Let’s not keep new music in seclusion | Letter

Letter: Presenting music recently created alongside that of the last 100 years would certainly enable listeners to assess composers’ achievements more accurately, says Meirion Bowen

Letters

20, Aug, 2019 @4:17 PM

Reader, I downloaded him: boom times for the literary long listen

Whether on Radio 4 or Amazon Audible, the appetite for classic works in audio form has never been greater

Nosheen Iqbal

18, Aug, 2019 @6:00 AM

Switch off the phone, turn on the radio and tune into Proust | Alex Clark

In the age of the short attention-span, a radio adaptation of In Search of Lost Time is high-class therapy, says the Guardian and Observer writer Alex Clark