This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.

"Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account

"Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account

This book concerns the 'variations' operated by Barthes on À la recherche du temps perdu over a period of three decades. It reads the Proustian oeuvre through

The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche d