William Benton on a passage from in the seventh volume (“Time Regained”) of the French author Marcel Proust’s autobiographical novel “In Search of Lost Time.”

Scott Moncrieff's English translation of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title as Remembrance of Things Past is not, however, considered a high point. William C. Carter explores the two men's correspondence on this somewhat sticky issue and how the Shakespearean title missed the mark regarding Proust's theory of memory.

Guillaume Gallienne, the French filmmaker behind Me, Myself and Mum, is adapting Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time into a TV series.

Marcel Proust by Richard Linder, 1950.

Buster Keaton's Kingdom

One hundred years after Proust's great novel was published Patrick McGuinness argues we can all have our madeleine moment

An article published by scholar Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan brings to our attention rare film footage showing family members and guests leaving the 1904 wedding of Elaine Greffulhe and the Duc de Guiche. Among those descending the staircase is a man who bears a striking resemblance to Marcel Proust.

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