With use of many beautiful quotations from Proust's work I will show how de Temps Perdu conveys an invaluable analysis of class oppression in the aristocracy, t
Writing in 1927, Julien Benda described France as being afflicted by the twin scourges of narrow, class-based politics and rabid nationalism. He nevertheless id
This departure from the norm reveals a side to Proust that was capable of observing the class struggle in the Third Republic, a possibility that the author disc
A la recherche du temps perdu occupies an undisputed place in the unfolding intellectual history of the 'moi' in France. There is, however, a general tendency i
The long-awaited penultimate volume--"the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work, in time f