[ noun ] French novelist (1871-1922) <noun.person>
They include Proust, EM Forster, Aldous Huxley and JB Priestley. Here we are with the elderly music teacher at a school in the Midlands. His son is a cellist of renown whose mistress is an opera star.
The madeleine plays a starring role in Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," in one of the most famous cookie-eating moments in all of literature.
All items were part of the vast collection of Jacques Guerin, leading French collector and the man who defended the young Marcel Proust long before "Remembrance of Things Past" was universally acclaimed.
"Proust was very visual and chromatic in his approach and so was father," Dmitri Nabokov said. "Father in his youth wanted to a painter.
That was Marc Humblot, French editor, in a rejection note to Marcel Proust in 1912.
"We're willing to make investments and allow writers the time to do books," Shinker said. "This fall we are publishing Ronald Hayman's biography of Marcel Proust, and that took four years.