How a shut-in became Marcel Proust. If you’ve been trying to write a novel for years, this is a comforting read.

“It All Comes Together” How did Marcel Proust become a great writer? By Roland Barthes What is at play in this change is, as I see it, the following: all Proust’s writings preceding A la recherche are, to some degree, fragmentary and short—short stories, articles, scraps of texts. One has the impression that the ingredients […]