Marcel Proust
The French rose from Manchester: in search of Proust’s forgotten muse
The poignant story of the Englishwoman Marie Nordlinger is told in a new book about her life with the writer
Kim Willsher in Paris
22, Jun, 2024 @3:00 PM
Letter: AS Byatt obituary
David Johnson writes: She admitted, without being boastful, that she had read Proust twice
David Johnson
03, Dec, 2023 @4:00 PM
Richard Armitage: ‘I used to stand on the Lord of the Rings to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe’
The actor and author on his love of fantasy fiction, the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, and why he doesn’t want a second bite of Proust
Richard Armitage
27, Oct, 2023 @9:00 AM
Where to start with: Marcel Proust
One hundred years after the French writer’s death, translator Lucy Raitz suggests some good ways into his work
Lucy Raitz
18, Nov, 2022 @4:31 PM
Reading Proust aloud: ‘How can it be that deeply flawed and terrible humans have the capacity to create?’
One hundred years after his death, our daily reading shows us that humans can conjure the utterly extraordinary
Patti Miller
12, Nov, 2022 @7:00 PM
In search of lost toast: Paris show reveals origins of Proust’s madeleines
Previous versions of French novel featured stale bread, toast and biscuit as trigger for author’s childhood memories
Kim Willsher in Paris
10, Oct, 2022 @2:32 PM
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
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