Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-line walls, he was not ready for the fresh assault of a new upstairs neighbor, Dr. Williams, a dentist with a thriving practice directly overhead. Chiefly to Mme Williams, these ever-polite letters (often accompanied by flowers, compliments, books, or even...

Entre les murs d'un appartement du boulevard Haussman, Marcel Proust écrit «Du Côté de Chez Swann», la première partie d'un monument romanesque, «À la recherche du temps perdu». À la porte de son génie littéraire, c'est une projection de souvenirs qui nous parvient, comme narrée par une voix profonde et sensible, à la recherche de sensations, d'un temps perdu que les méandres de la mémoire s'attèlent à raviver. Lorsqu'on dépasse...

Carol Clark's acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy. The titular "prisoner" is Albertine, the tall, dark...