Christopher Prendergast is Emeritus Professor of Modern French Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge. He directed the 2002 Penguin translation of A la recherche du temps perdu and is the author of Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic published in 2013.
A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity... a real delight. No Proustian should be without it. * Andrew Marr *