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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, ...

A copy of Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way" which he dedicated to his "little darling", sold for 1.51 million euros ($1.7 million) in Paris Friday -- a world record for a French book, auction house ...

Few writers hold the world’s attention long enough for their 150th birthday to qualify as an event. But then, it’s hard to think of a novelist who has shaped readers’ imaginations as profoundly as ...

Alice Munro will not travel to Sweden for the Nobel ceremony, due to health concerns. “To me, Proust is the Shakespeare of the inner world.” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on reading and ...

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 ...