NEW YORK, April 9 (UPI) -- Playwrights Horizons is inaugurating its $27 million theater complex on 42nd Street with "My Life With Albertine," a musical based on Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things ...

Marcel Proust's enormous novel In Search of Lost Time has defeated the best-intentioned of us more than once in English, let alone French. And so we must trust Colin Duckworth's translation for the ...

Well, he's no Harold Hill, Billy Bigelow, Sky Masterson or even Don Quixote de la Mancha, a fellow possessed by similar obsessions. Emotionally, Marcel is a one-note kind of guy. Maybe that's why "My ...

46. Albertine’s death in a riding accident on p.642 of Volume Five does not emancipate Marcel from jealousy, it removes only one of the innumerable Albertines he would have to forget. The jealous ...

In the fifth book of Marcel Proust's long novel Remembrance of Things Past, The Captive(La Prisonnière in French), a strange thing about the narrator, who shares his first name with the author, is ...

NEW YORK, April 9 (UPI) -- Playwrights Horizons is inaugurating its $$@$!27 million theater complex on 42nd Street with "My Life With Albertine," a musical based on Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of ...

1. Albertine, the name, is not a common name for a girl in France, although Albert is widespread for a boy. 2. Albertine’s name occurs 2363 times in Proust’s novel, more than any other character. 3.