Marcel Proust

It always seems to swell just beneath the finery of the master's fictionalized memories in A La Recherche ... This week in Paris another conclave of hyper-Proustians is gathering sponsored by the very crusty INHA, or the French National Institute on ...  

As regular readers of Kirkville probably know, I’m a fan of Marcel Proust. I recently started re-reading A la recherche du temps perdu, but was sidetracked by moving house. Some time ago, I listened to the entire work, on a French audio recording. But not all Proustians are French speakers. Proust actually has quite a [...]  

The world is a book. Those who do not travel read only a page. --Marcel Proust, 1871–1922, French novelist, critic. Proust in Venice....  

Miriam Heywood, Modernist Visions. Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu and Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma Oxford : Peter Lang, coll. "Modern French identities", 2012. 277 pp., 9 ill EAN 9783034302968. Prix 42.80EUR Présentation de l'éditeur This book explores the work of two major twentieth-century artists by placing them in critical proximity. Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu and Jean-Luc Godard’s...  

(Medical Xpress) -- Most everyone has had the occasion of breathing in an odor and suddenly finding themselves lost in the reverie of a memory from long ago; the smell of fresh baked bread perhaps bringing back mornings at Grandma’s house or a certain perfume that always brings back a certain time in high school. Such odor/memory links are known as the "Proust Phenomenon" in honor of Marcel Proust, the French writer who romanticized the...  

Friday night, ABC will air a Barbara Walters special with President and Mrs. Obama. During her interviews Walters got personal — but then, when doesn’t she? — as the Obamas approach their 20th wedding anniversary next year. ABC says Walters’ questions were drawn from the late-nineteenth century Proust Questionnaire, a series of personality questions made famous by French author Marcel Proust. They are regularly asked of celebrities in...  

The Proust Questionnaire is a fortnightly feature that alternates with the Saturday interview. These questions were most famously answered by the French writer Marcel Proust, whose personality-revealing responses came to define this form of celebrity ...  

President Obama, First Lady Tackle 10 Personal Questions Dec. 22, 2011 Walters' questions were drawn from the late-nineteenth century Proust Questionnaire, a series of personality questions made famous by French author Marcel Proust. They are regularly put to celebrities in interviews featured on the back page of Vanity Fair magazine. The Obamas' responses that follow have been lightly edited for brevity. What's the trait you most deplore in...  

'Victimhood is something that happens but when you turn it into an identity you're psychically and politically finished'One day, Jacqueline Rose came across a troubling passage in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. The narrator, Marcel, lies beside his sleeping lover Albertine and masturbates against her. "It seemed to me at those moments," writes Proust in Carol Clark's recent Penguin translation, "that I possessed her more completely...  

A team of researchers from a Dutch university have linked the olfactory sense with improved long-term memory -- a condition known as "the Proust phenomenon" in honor of the French author's novel "In Search of Lost Time." According to Telegraph Science Correspondent Nick Collins, Utrecht University researchers Marieke B. J. Toffolo, Monique A. M. Smeets, and Marcel A. van den Hout recruited 70 female students and had them watch video footage...