Marcel Proust

Today, June 10th, marks the birth date of another great 20th-century modern novelist: Marcel Proust, author of the celebrated, and massive, work, “À la recherche du temps perdu” (“Remembrance of Things Past”). And luckily, by the same quirk of copyright that has left the work of Proust’s only rival for the title of greatest modern [...]

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