Tag Archives: In Search of Lost Time

How Proust Saved a Prisoner’s Soul

By Robin Bates | Published: May 17, 2023

In an intense search for meaning, prisoner Daniel Genis finally found it in Proust.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2023

Reading about Gilberte in “Swann’s Way” has had me thinking a lot about a girl I knew in childhood.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 9, 2023

As I read Proust’s “Swann’s Way,” I imagined what it must have meant to a friend, who read it when he was dying.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 9, 2023

A dying friend decided to read, in his last months, Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” As I read it, I’m beginning to understand why.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2023

Why do White working-class GOP supporters support programs helping the rich? Proust and Faulkner have possible answers.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 25, 2023

For Lent this year, I am taking on Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” I hope to gain new insight into the nature of fictional engagement.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2023

Literary characters, according to Peter Brooks, help us understand “the most elusive and consequential issues of our limited human existence.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 28, 2021

Strange new alliance have formed in response to Trumpism. Conservative David Frum points out that Marcel Proust described similar shifts in his day.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 31, 2012

Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.