He mentioned his brother, his books and, of course, the onset of World War I. Mostly, though, Marcel Proust complained about the noise. "Letters to His Neighbor" is an entertaining collection of notes ...

David Shaywitz’s “The Dangers of Finding a Cure,” reviewing “You Bet Your Life” by Paul Offit (Bookshelf, Nov. 9), reminded me of a comment by Marcel Proust. In his novel “In Search of Lost Time” ...

A mother looms over the narrator — figuratively and literally — in Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, the seven-volume novel “In Search of Lost Time.” Not that it’s a big surprise, but thanks to an exhibit ...

During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter ...

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 ...

Marcel Proust’s masterwork In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes from 1913 through 1927, is as much a rumination on the slip and slide of time as it is a time capsule. In it is bottled ...

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 ...