When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: ‘Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study

This 1999 study examines Proust's involvement with fin-de-siècle 'hysteria', and its impact on the writing of his great novel.

Challenging the notion that modernism is marked by an “inward turn” – a configuration of the individual as distinct from the world – this collection del

Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Je

A guide to three novels by Marcel Proust containing selections of critical essays, plot summaries for each work, and a biography of Proust.