
Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to...

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural...

In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein, the author of Balzac's Omelette (Other Press, 2011), draws out the literary and book-related themes in Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search...
