Robert Fraser
senior research fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University and author of Proust and the Victorians
1 episode
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Philosophers of literatureAphorists20th-century atheistsWriters from ParisFrench atheists20th-century French philosophers19th-century atheistsBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryFormer Roman CatholicsModernist writersConversationalists20th-century French novelistsFrench male non-fiction writersFrench philosophers of art19th-century French philosophersLGBTQ Roman CatholicsFrench literary criticsFrench LGBTQ novelists19th-century mysticsFrench Roman Catholic writersPeople with hypochondriasis20th-century mysticsLycée Condorcet alumni19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ peopleDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench essayistsFrench short story writers20th-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
Conversationalists20th-century atheistsFrench philosophers of art19th-century French philosophersLGBTQ Roman Catholics19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ people19th-century mysticsPhilosophers of literatureFrench Roman Catholic writersFrench atheistsBurials at Père Lachaise Cemetery20th-century French novelistsFormer Roman CatholicsAphoristsDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench male non-fiction writersFrench literary criticsPeople with hypochondriasisFrench essayists19th-century atheists20th-century mystics20th-century French philosophersLycée Condorcet alumniFrench short story writersFrench LGBTQ novelistsWriters from ParisModernist writers20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writers