“Since 1913, several generations of readers of Proust have ensued: the sect of Proustians who discovered his novel in the Gallimard's "Collection Blanche"; the enlightened who read it in the first ...

To be in the Polish Army in 1940 more or less amounted to a death sentence. Fighting against both the Nazi and the Soviet armies—then allies—enlisted men would, surviving battle, be conscripted as ...

What books do we reach for when we know that we soon will die? And do we read to prepare ourselves for death, as the ancient Egyptians did with the “Book of the Dead,” or to distract ourselves from it ...

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Even those who haven’t read Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past know of one scene in the book: the flood of memory released by tasting a madeleine dipped in tea. Proust insisted that only ...