One hundred years ago, French publishers were busy rejecting a wordy, novelistic treatise on childhood, memory and society by a Parisian dandy and dilettante named Marcel Proust. In November, 1913, ...

PROUST: PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS (332 pp.—Andre Mauro/s—Harper ($4.50). In the 1920s, Andre Maurois wrote Ariel, a pastiche of Shelley’s life which was neither imaginative enough to be a good novel nor ...

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