PROUST

Marcel Proust came into his own as a novelist comparatively late in life, yet only Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoy evsky were his equals when it came to creating characters as memorably human. As biographer Benjamin Taylor suggests, before writing In Search of Lost Time, his multivolume masterwork, Proust was a literary lightweight, but, following a series of momentous histori cal and personal events, he becameagainst all expectationsone of the greatest writers of his, and indeed any, era. This insightful , beautifu...[Read more]