Sweet Madeleine

Published: Oct. 26, 2015, 4 a.m.

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Best known for his seven-volume masterpiece A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time), French writer Marcel Proust is considered to be one of the finest novelists of the 20th century. Though born into upper-class society\\u2014his Catholic father was a doctor and his Jewish mother came from a well-known Jewish family\\u2014Proust did not show much ambition or aptitude as a young man. Indeed, he was a dilettante and man about town who spent his time having love affairs and squandering an inheritance.

As biographer Benjamin Taylor makes clear in Proust: The Search, all...


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