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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