Robert Fraser
senior research fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University and author of Proust and the Victorians
1 episode
Covers topics in categories such as:
Philosophers of literatureAphorists20th-century atheistsWriters from Paris20th-century French philosophersFrench atheists19th-century atheistsFormer Roman CatholicsModernist writersBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryConversationalistsFrench male non-fiction writers20th-century French novelistsFrench literary critics19th-century French philosophersFrench philosophers of artFrench LGBTQ novelistsLGBTQ Roman CatholicsLycée Condorcet alumni20th-century mysticsPeople with hypochondriasisFrench Roman Catholic writers19th-century mysticsDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench essayistsFrench short story writers19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ people20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writers
Proust
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and achievements of the 19th century French novelist Marcel Proust whose 3000 page work À La Recherche du Temps Perdu has been called the definitive modern novel.
17 April 2003
Also featuring: Jacqueline Rose, Malcolm Bowie
Lycée Condorcet alumniDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench literary criticsConversationalistsFrench essayistsFrench male non-fiction writersFormer Roman Catholics20th-century mystics20th-century atheistsFrench short story writers20th-century French philosophers19th-century atheistsPeople with hypochondriasisModernist writersBurials at Père Lachaise Cemetery19th-century French philosophersFrench philosophers of art20th-century French novelistsFrench Roman Catholic writersFrench LGBTQ novelistsWriters from Paris19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ people20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writersLGBTQ Roman CatholicsAphorists19th-century mysticsFrench atheistsPhilosophers of literature19th century20th centuryFrance