Tābestān bā Prust: Majmūʿah-yi Jostār Persian 2025

This book is a collection of eight essays written by French-speaking critics and authors, each of whom has published significant works on Proust and his monumental masterpiece, becoming a reference for understanding this enigmatic writer. Each contributor addresses a different aspect of Proust’s work, so that by reading this collection, one can become familiar with the subtleties of the novel and enjoy it even more. These eight authors praise Proust’s masterpiece and reflect on its fundamental questions: What characteristics define the world Proust created? Whose work inspired him? How can the structure of his novel be explained? What were Proust’s views on the arts, philosophy, reading, and writing? What are the qualities of “Proustian time”?

This collection is useful both for readers who have already engaged with Proust’s novel and wish to understand its finer details, and for those who have long feared approaching this multi-volume work, encouraging them to immerse themselves in the world of Proust and get lost in the novel’s strange labyrinth. Within these essays, we see that every reader, in encountering this monumental book, will recognize themselves and, ultimately, emerge as a different person.