By Ana D. Rodriguez This week, which marks the 97th anniversary of his death (11/18/1922), we are digitizing a selection of letters from the collection of noted French author Marcel Proust (1871-1922). Besides offering a broad view of the genius of Proust and his milieu, correspondence from his collection is mostly characterized by a set […]
Category: Marcel Proust
Many ways of reading a Proust letter
November 21, 2019
Proust and the Great War
May 10, 2014
Selected Letters at the University of Illinois by François Proulx, Assistant Professor of French This online exhibition is part of The Great War: Experiences, Representations, Effects, a campus-wide initiative marking the centenary of World War I. (Read more about this exhibition) At the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, Marcel Proust […]
Marcel Proust on Writing
July 22, 2013
2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Du côté de chez Swann (Swann’s Way), the first part of Marcel Proust’s lengthy literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, also known as Remembrance of Things Past. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is celebrating this milestone with an exhibition drawn from its renowned Proust […]