Showing posts with label Aleksandar Hemon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aleksandar Hemon. Show all posts

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Chicago Celebrates Proust

Practically everyone who is anyone in the literary world is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, probably the most accessible volume in the Proust pantheon.  Read about it here: 

In Chicago Aleksandar Hemon celebrates Proust  Aleksandar Hemon offers his history of reading Proust.   We are so glad that people read Proust rather than just celebrating him. 




Sunday, October 06, 2013

The Proust Trifecta: Proust and the Cultural Imagination

Yet more interesting Proust news.  Is there something in the air?  Lake Forest College in the tony Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois is hosting a Proust event.  If you're in the are next week and feel like partaking of Proust in academia, here is he information: Lake Forest College to Celebrate Proust 

Mark October 16th on your calendar.

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