Christopher Prendergast

Christopher Prendergast, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is working on a book about Proust.

In the LRB Archive:

• Pirouette on a Sixpence: Untranslatables · 10 September 2015

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon edited by Barbara Cassin, translated by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra and Michael Wood

• Short Cuts: Student Loans · 6 January 2011

• Short Cuts: Sarah Palin’s Favourite Frenchman · 2 December 2010

• Fumbling for the Towel: Maigret’s elevation to the Panthéon · 7 July 2005

  • Romans: Tome I by Georges Simenon
  • Romans: Tome II by Georges Simenon

• Diary: Piss where you like · 17 March 2005

• Capital’s Capital: Baron Haussmann’s Paris · 3 October 2002

  • Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris by Michel Carmona, translated by Patrick Camiller

• Amused, Bored or Exasperated: Gustave Flaubert · 13 December 2001

  • Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall

• ‘I am not dead’: H.C. Andersen · 8 March 2001

  • Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager

• By the Width of a Street: literary geography · 29 October 1998

  • An Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 by Franco Moretti

• Hitchcocko-Hawksien · 5 June 1997

  • Projections 7 edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue
  • Cahiers du cinema. Vol. I: The Fifties. Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave edited by Jim Hillier
  • Cahiers du cinema. Vol. II: The Sixties. New Wave, New Cinema, Re-evaluating Hollywood edited by Jim Hillier
  • Cahiers du cinema. Vol. III: 1969-72. The Politics of Representation edited by Nick Browne

• Il n’y a pas de Beckett · 14 November 1996

  • Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson
  • Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin
  • The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol I: Waiting for Godot edited by Dougald McMillan and James Knowlson
  • The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol II: Endgame edited by S.E. Gontarski
  • The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol III: Krapp’s Last Tape edited by James Knowlson
  • Eleutheria by Samuel Beckett, translated by Barbara Wright

• La Bête républicaine · 5 September 1996

  • The Dreyfus Affair: ‘J’Accuse’ and Other Writings by Emile Zola, edited by Alain Pagès, translated by Eleanor Levieux
  • Zola: A Life by Frederick Brown

• Happy Babble · 7 March 1996

  • Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton by Mark Polizzotti

• Tears in the Café Select · 9 March 1995

  • Paris Interzone: Richard Wright, Lolita, Boris Vian and Others on the Left Bank 1946-1960 by James Campbell
  • Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties by Peter Lennon
  • The Good Ship Venus: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press by John de St Jorre

• Horrible Dead Years · 24 March 1994

  • Baudelaire by Joanna Richardson

• English Proust · 8 July 1993

  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright

• Making the world · 16 March 1989

  • Gillette, or The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Anthony Rudolf

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