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7 Harold Pinter, Remembrance of Things Past, adapted with Di Trevis (London: Faber, 2000). See also Harold Pinter, The Proust Screenplay: A la recherche du temps perdu (London: Faber, 1991).
8 Martine Beugnet and Marion Schmid, Proust at the Movies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). Readers of French should also refer to the important collection Proust et les images, peinture, photographie, cinéma, vidéo (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003), edited by Jean Cléder et Jean-Pierre Montier.
9 Bennett’s play can be found on the double DVD Alan Bennett at the BBC (London: BBC Films, 2009) or in print in A Private Function (London: Faber, 2004).
10 Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader (London: Faber, 2007), p. 63.
11 Available on DVD, Roland Petit, Proust ou les intermittences du cœur [2007] (Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris), 2008.
12 For an interview with Cassiers regarding his Proust cycle, see Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, 4 ‘Proust et le théâtre’ (2006), 273–88.
13 Shirley King, Dining with Marcel Proust: A Practical Guide to the Cuisine of the Belle Époque (London: Thames & Hudson, 1979; University of Nebraska Press, 2006).
14 See www.pausilippe.com/feuilltonproust.htm for pictures, résumés and travel details.
15 Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life (London: Picador, 1997).
16 Jonah Lehrer, Proust was a Neuroscientist (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
17 As Germaine Greer pointed out in a review of the book, although he had many similar anticipatory insights, ‘few New Yorkers are going to buy a book called Montaigne was a Neuroscientist’. See New Scientist, 2631, 24 November 2007.
18 Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (New York: HarperCollins, 2007).
19 Brian Dillon, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2009), ch. 7, ‘Marcel Proust and Common Sense’.
20 For some brief remarks on Sartre’s Nausea and other twentieth-century borrowings, see David Ellison, ‘Proust and Posterity’, in the Cambridge Companion to Proust. On Proust’s place in the work of two major figures of twentieth-century literature and philosophy, see Mary Bryden and Margaret Topping, eds, Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); and for a collection of essays which draw connecting lines between Proust and, amongst others, Julien Gracq, Claude Simon and Marguerite Yourcenar, readers should consult Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, 6 ‘Proust dans la littérature contemporaine’ (2008).
21 For instance by Allan Massie in The Scotsman, 31 October 2009, whose books section was headed, next to a photograph of Marías, with the question ‘Is this man the new Proust?’
22 See, for example, Ian McCall, ‘Proust’s A la recherche as intertext of Makine’s Le Testament français’, Modern Language Review, 100 (2005), 971–84.
23 Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book, trans. by Maureen Freely (London: Faber, 2006 [1995]), p. 174.
24 Jacqueline Rose, Albertine (London: Chatto & Windus, 2001).
25 Kate Taylor, Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen (London: Vintage, 2003).
26 See Georges Perec et al., 35 Variations sur Proust (Paris: Le Castor Astral, 2000). Thirty-six years after publishing these ‘variations’, the Magazine Littéraire, in its April 2010 number, ran a special issue on Proust, in part to correspond with a major exhibition at the Musée des lettres et des manuscripts on the boulevard Saint-Germain from April to August 2010.
27 Gray, Postmodern Proust, p. 153.
Further reading
The secondary material on Proust is vast. Below are selective lists of important and instructive works, first in English, then in French; available translations of French works are incorporated in the English list.
In English
Biography
Albaret, C., Monsieur Proust, trans. by Barbara Bray (New York Review Books, 2003).
Carter, W. C., Marcel Proust: A Life (New Haven, CT and London: