Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When did your own interest in Proust first begin? I read Proust for the first time when I was 18 years old in Naples.

Marcel Proust's groundbreaking 1922 masterpiece In Search of Lost Time is considered daunting and difficult by many, but has been misunderstood and is actually universally appealing, writes Cath Pound ...

A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is ...

One hundred years ago, French publishers were busy rejecting a wordy, novelistic treatise on childhood, memory and society by a Parisian dandy and dilettante named Marcel Proust. In November, 1913, ...

During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter ...

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Spending time with my family—with no phone, no fax, and no meetings. What is your greatest fear? I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in ...

Marcel Proust’s masterwork In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes from 1913 through 1927, is as much a rumination on the slip and slide of time as it is a time capsule. In it is bottled ...