Jean-Yves Tadié

Jean-Yves Tadié, 2013.

Jean-Yves Tadié (born 1936) is a French writer, specializing in Marcel Proust.[1] His 800-page biography of Proust was well-received, asserted by Edmund White in his own book on Proust to be the best work of its kind. Briefly a professor in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, Tadié was then, until his retirement, a professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and director of the collections "Classical Folio" and "Theatre Folio".

He was also a director of the French Institute of London.

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Pearson, Roger (17 September 2000). "Life Was Art, Art Was Life". The New York Times. p. 16. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
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