“Marcel Proust: A Life,” by William C. Carter. Yale University Press. 1,024 pages. $35. When considering a book like this, which is more than 1,000 pages, one is forced to confront the sheer size of ...

William Carter’s “Proust in Love” (Yale University Press, 280 pages, $26) is what Mary Ann Caws, author of an innovative biography of Marcel Proust, says it is: the product of extensive knowledge that ...

The death of the famous French writer Marcel Proust at the age of 51 on November 18th, 1922 marked the end of a short but highly productive life. As a student of French a number of decades ago, I was ...

In search of letters by Marcel Proust at Brandeis University? Mais oui! Of the 23 letters that Brandeis possesses, all are handwritten by Proust on cream-colored laid paper, except for one, which is ...