A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime’s reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time.

Christopher Prendergast, one of the world’s foremost literary scholars, and general editor of the most recent translation of À la recherche du temps perdu, has produced a highly entertaining book that takes in such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food and digestion, colour, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humor.

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust will surely become the companion for all future readers either about to reembark on Proust’s three-million-word journey or setting out for the first time.

“A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity... a real delight. No Proustian should be without it.”
—Andrew Marr

Christopher Prendergast
Christopher Prendergast is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. He writes for the London Review of Books and the New Left Review. He is also the general editor of the Penguin reissues of Proust’s work, published in 2002.

• Nov 17 2022
  “Excellent.”
  — Washington Post
• Jun 7 2022
  “Splendid.”
  — The New York Times Book Review
• Apr 1 2022
  “This book will prompt many to reread Proust.”
  — Library Journal
• Mar 17 2022
  “Not to be missed.”
  — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
• Mar 14 2022
  “Magnificent.”
  — Brooklyn Rail
• Jan 19 2022
  “...brings the work, and the great man himself, to life.”
  — Buzz Magazine