Christopher Prendergast

Proust expert Christopher Prendergast reflects on a lifetime of reading the great author’s masterpiece A la recherche du temps perdu.

Prendergast is one of the world’s leading Proust scholars and general editor of the most recent translation of the novel. His new book on Proust looks at a range of the novelist’s obsessions such as insomnia, food and digestion, colour, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humour.

‘A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity . . . a real delight. No Proustian should be without it’ – Andrew Marr

Prendergast is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and of the British Academy. He writes for the London Review of Books and the New Left Review.

This event is part of the festival’s programme of French literature and culture.