Articles related to "Marcel Proust"

Early 20th-century French novelist Marcel Proust composed Remembrance of Things Past, a seven-volume novel that changed the history of European Literature.

While himself subsisting on a diet of coffee and croissants, Marcel Proust saw food as revealing the hidden essence of reality and cooking as an art form.

Proust wrote In Search of Lost Time from his bed in a cork-lined, precisely arranged room which served as his bedroom, his shelter, his memory and his study.

Biography of French writer Marcel Proust, famous for his novel Remembrance of Things Past.

city-lit books are a new kind of travel guide, showing a city through the eyes of writers new and old. The Paris title ranges from Proust and Victor Hugo to Kate Muir.

A mistake can be the means for an infinite number of solutions if dug into deeply enough and not dwelled upon in a negative fashion.

Paris' Musee Carnavelet, dedicated to the history of Paris, is housed in a unique Parisian 16th-century mansion in Paris' hip Marais neighborhood.

Make your commitment to creative time each week a reality by assigning a workspace for these activities and investigating the kind of art, music, or craft that inspires.

A walking tour through Toronto's second Chinatown geared at celebrating the lore, tradition and festivities of this, the Year of the Pig. Shirley Lum takes you there...

Paris has many cemeteries, however the three that attract the most visitors are the Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Cimetière de Montmartre and Cimetière du Montparnasse.

Where can you see Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, and Sarah Bernhardt, all in one place? At Paris' Pere Lachaise Cemetery, that's where.

How the example of famous, self published authors helps to make a decision.

There are a surprising number of celebrities with OCD. Famous people with obsessive-compulsive disorder can be an inspiration for other sufferers of this disorder.

Many great thinkers have been quoted on their views of friendship. Sweet words about friends, friendships, & love of a friend by wise philosophers, writers & artists.

Over 1000 planes take off and land at Paris's Charles De Gaulle Airport daily. For the traveller with a stopover in France's sassy capital city here are the MUST sees...

The top sights in France's Loire Valley include mostly Renaissance châteaux (palaces), gothic churches, and interesting old towns in Orleans, Tours, Blois, and Amboise.

Revisit this forgotten craft and try your hand at baking a rich and comforting Country Whole Wheat Bread With Herbs.

The Musée Carnavalet deserves far more attention, as it is a delightful 17th Century mansion housing art works and artifacts that illustrate the development of Paris.

In "To the Lighthouse," Virgina Woolf does not even appear as a character. She explains herself only through the eyes of others.

From Jane Austen to Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, no artist is safe in this collection of satirical sketches by the late longtime poetry editor of The New Yorker, Howard Moss.