Novelist and critic Michael Arditti shares his passion for Proust, with whom he has always felt a personal connection. He reveals why he feels this is the greatest novel of the 20th century and why you should read – or return to – this classic about love in its many forms. The nature of love is the subject of Arditti’s latest novel Jubilate. Arditti has written seven novels including Easter, which won the first Waterstone’s Mardi Gras award. He is a regular book reviewer for newspapers and an occasional arts critic for the BBC. This event is part of a series on books ‘I’ve always meant to read . .’