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Summarize Proust

Finding adequate translations of the major works of a foreign-language author is hard enough, but finding ANY translation of that writer's lesser-known scribblings is almost impossible. Now fans of Marcel Proust, at least, have somewhere to go, as this Proust Ephemera site seeks to make the French modernist's lesser work as familiar to Americans as "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" (that's "Remembrance of Things Past" for the unitiated). From personal correspondence to book dedications, this site offers English translations of a veritable treasure trove of Proust aracana. Casual readers of the master's work may find it little more than a curiosity, but completists will wonder how they ever lived without it.

Fri, 10 Dec 1999 02:41:14 -0800