Marcel Proust

Is it, in the words of an old professor, the greatest thing ever written? I can't say that it is, because part of me feels that admitting that would be to narrow the scope of my world to that of Proust's. But is it the greatest success ever written, a book that sets out very specific terms and fulfills them beyond any expectation, comparable to Joyce or Kant? Possibly. --Waggish, Waggish Reads Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, December 08, 2003 through May 27, 2008


Recommended reading:
by Marcel Proust at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Proust's Way, by Roy, alicublog, Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:07 AM

Getting to the bottom -- or edges -- of Proust, review by Bob Blaisdell of The Proust Project, edited by Andre Aciman, San Francisco Chronicle, November 21, 2004

In search of Marcel Proust: A new version of In Search of Lost Time makes Proust less stuffy, but has something been lost in translation? by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Observer, November 17, 2002

Proust regained: on Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, by Daniel Mark Epstein, The New Criterion, October 2000