Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin Claudette Johnson edited by Cornelia Mattiacci and

edited by Cornelia Mattiacci and Peter Benson Miller

each title is a reaction against the canon curated for readers who want to stray into the margins and away from the mainstream

Benny Andrews

Instead of choosing a side

Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin Claudette Johnson edited by Cornelia Mattiacci andYale University Press, 2009, Softcover, 246 pages, 20. 32 x 12. 7 cm Early in his career, Marcel Proust, who greatly admired John Ruskin, published translations of two works by the English critic La Bible dAmiens (1900) and Ssame et les Lys (1906). He wrote a substantial preface to each book and provided discursive notes that were themselves often small essays. Rare now, even in their French versions, the preface to La Bible dAmiens and the notes to