

Tue, Jul 16
|Zoom Event
A Conversation with William C. Carter In Celebration of Marcel’s Proust’s Birthday (in English)
Time & Location
Jul 16, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Zoom Event
About the event
In honor of Marcel Proust’s birthday, join us for a conversation between Fereshteh Priou, founder of the Proust Society of Greenwich, and William C. Carter, Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Proust biographer.
is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His biography was selected as a “Notable Book of 2000” by The New York Times. Harold Bloom has written that Carter is “Proust’s definitive biographer” and that his more recent book, , is “a marvelous study of the comic splendor of the great novelist’s vision of human Eros and its discontents.” He co-produced the award-winning documentary film .William C. Carter Marcel Proust: A LifeProust in LoveMarcel Proust: A Writer’s Life
In 2013, Yale University Press published a new edition of the biography and began publishing a revised, annotated edition of Scott Moncrieff’s distinguished translation of . appeared in 2013 and was published in October 2015. The Gale Group published in 2013 his edition of volume (371) on Proust. That same year Carter received the Médaille d’Or du Mérite Francophone from the American Delegation of La Renaissance Française.In Search of Lost TimeSwann’s WayIn the Shadow of Young Girls in FlowerThe Dictionary of Literary Biography
is the founder of the Proust Society of Greenwich and leading a monthly gathering of Proust enthusiasts since 2007. The group members engage in close reading of Marcel Proust’s book, . Fereshteh started the fourth round of reading the book in January 2023.Fereshteh PriouÀ la recherche du temps perdu
This event will be on Zoom and is free for all Alliance Française members in the U.S., AATF members, and invited guests of the presenters. Non-members or persons who have no AF chapter nearby can purchase tickets ($10). Please click to register.here