Aside from Eve’s apple and Persephone’s pomegranate, there are few edibles in literature more famous than the tea-drenched madeleine that awakens Proust’s memory of childhood in Remembrance of Things ...

Some of you may be familiar with Marcel Proust's seven-volume work À la recherché du temps perdu (usually translated as Remembrances of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), either first-hand or ...

I promised myself that I wouldn’t mention Marcel Proust, but there was no way around it. So I’ll tell you what you may already know: That lots of us have heard anything about the pretty, shell-shaped ...

France's National Library is trying to acquire hundreds of unpublished documents belonging to Marcel Proust. France's National Library launched a public appeal to raise 7.7 million euros ($9.1 million ...

It’s been over a hundred years since the publication of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past) about involuntary memory, whereby cues one ...

The sheer pleasure of baked goods is always transportive. By Hanya Yanagihara A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is ...

France's National Library launched a public appeal for donations on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of unpublished documents belonging to Marcel Proust, including some showing how the famed writer ...