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...epic novel has intrigued and defied the efforts of such talented screenwriters and directors as Harold Pinter, Luchino Visconti and Peter Brook. For 22 years Producer Nicole Stephane could not get anyone to complete a film based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Then, "motivated by pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann...
Following her doctoral work, she taught at Columbia University and Occidental College, returning to Harvard in 1981. During her graduate years at Harvard, Suleiman won and award for best teaching fellow in the Romance Languanges and Literature department, century French fiction, as well as a course on Proust...
...after a swim in a university pool. He likes to exercise on weekends by tramping 20 miles through the wilderness of Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco. Despite his mathematician's passion for precision and clarity, his literary taste runs to the richly convoluted prose of Proust. As a teacher, Debreu is known for jotting mathematical formulas in the upper left-hand corner of a blackboard at the beginning of a lecture and then gradually covering every bit of remaining space with symbols, until he ends up in the lower right-hand corner. His most striking qualities...
...this robust and fertile letter writer, who in our age would probably have been one of the great novelists ..." Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky...
Cultural change is subject to other time lags. A few performances make vivid headlines, but for reasons that often turn out to be transitory, wrong or both. Other events remain hidden for long periods, news postponed. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) now stands, along with Joyce and Proust, as an indispensable guide to the modern temperament. Yet readers during the '20s learned nothing of Kafka, for the bulk of his work was published posthumously, and English translations began appearing only...