“I’m reading Proust”: for months I’ve been saying this to myself in front of the mirror. When asked about what I’ve been up to in lockdown, I drop the phrase nonchalantly, as though A La Recherche du ...

A long time ago I was hopelessly hung up, and not in a good way, on a certain passage in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. The offending passage, obstructing all the rest of Proust for me, lay in ...

Swann’s Way, the first installment of Marcel Proust’s seven-part series, In Search of Lost Time, is a book countless people have started — and a far more countable number have managed to finish. It ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. What a whopper: seven volumes, 1.5 million words, and in the Kilmartin translation, 3300 pages long. The first volume also turns 100 this ...

At the end of a month with Proust, I'm only at the beginning. It isn't just that I've read less than a quarter of In Search of Lost Time. I don't really feel that I have started to properly absorb and ...

Calum Marsh: Undertakings of an unambiguously intellectual kind tend to both flatter our self-image and paralyze it with concern You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...