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Max McGuinness
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Lecturer in French at Birkbeck, University of London
Nous faisons le récit de la censure de Proust dans le pays de Beckett et Joyce dans cet essai pour Proustonomics.

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Proust en Irlande : entre censure et consécration -
La Recherche a été censurée en Irlande en 1943, ce qui n'a pas empêché Proust d'exercer une influence certaine sur les écrivains de l'île.
proustonomics.com
August 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM
"For example, we discover how Irish writers such as Beckett, Wilde, Joyce, Mary Devenport O’Neill, Brendan Behan, McGahern and Elizabeth Bowen engaged with and were influenced by Proust’s ideas and techniques, many of which they applied to their own art."
June 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Thoughts and prayers
June 15, 2026 at 11:52 AM
‘Cet ouvrage, remarquablement documenté et agrémenté d’une quinzaine d’illustrations, offre un tour complet des rapports complexes qu’ont entretenus la presse et la littérature à l’époque où celle-ci entrait dans l’ère moderne.’
Pascal Ifri, Nineteenth-Century French Studies
April 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
'Impressive in the depth of its research, and in its nuanced portrait of the interlocking worlds of novelists, poets, and journalists over the years of the Third Republic.’
Edmund Birch, Romanic Review
April 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
‘A smart and compelling account of the role of journalism in modernist French literature and its ongoing relevance in the 21st-century digital era.’
Karen Quandt, The French Review
April 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
‘In this ambitious and accomplished survey, Max McGuinness addresses the tensions embodied within the emerging “civilisation du journal” [...] An incisive work of criticism, exploring a state of affairs that feels particularly relevant in our post-digital world.’
Lisa Hilton, TLS
April 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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April 18, 2026 at 6:43 PM
This may well never have happened, as discussed in Elisabeth Ladenson's chapter on Proust and Wilde in The Irish Proust:

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The Irish Proust
This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work. Featuring contr…
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February 28, 2026 at 2:44 AM