Benjamin Taylor | Proust: The Search | 2015

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Benjamin Taylor, Proust: The Search, New Haven, Yale University Press, “Jewish Lives”, 2015 Biographie, 224 pages Proust-The Search Marcel Proust came into his own as a novelist comparatively late in life, yet only Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky were his equals when it came to creating characters as memorably human. As biographer Benjamin Taylor suggests, before writing In Search of Lost Time, his multivolume masterwork, Proust was a literary lightweight, but, follow...