The old quarrel between critics and artists (especially painters) plays out with exuberance in two pamphlet-like essays now available from David Zwirner Books. Adding to their charm, both works were ...

THE PAST RECAPTURED—Marcel Proust —A. & C. Boni. Proustians, whose numbers are growing in all Western lands, say that the late great Marcel Proust (died Nov. 18, 1922), half-Jew, half-snob, ...

For her newest work, author and illustrator Maira Kalman collaborated with musician David Byrne to create “American Utopia,” a book based on the Broadway show of the same name. Kalman’s signature wry, ...

A newly formed book club in Central Oregon is like few others. It’s part support group, part raucous party, but all Proust. The Proust Book Club is dedicated to reading Marcel Proust’s “In Search of ...

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Author of the monumental multivolume novel In Search of Lost Time. High modernist of the first order and reclusive titan of French letters. And, if one Canadian scholar is correct, quite the dapper ...

PROUST: THE LATER YEARS by George D. Painter. 424 pages. Atlantic-Little Brown. $7.50. It was 1922. In a hermetically sealed bedroom at 44 rue Hamelin in Paris, the brilliant, untidy life of Valentin ...

Another rare copy of Proust's "Du cote de chez Swann" was also sold at Sotheby's for 535,500 euros last year A copy of Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way" which he dedicated to his "little darling", sold ...