Clive Bell on
Marcel Proust

On the right is a 100 year-old article by art critic Clive Bell (1881 - 1964), who succinctly makes the case as to why neither Britain or America would have been capable of producing a writer like Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).

Another review by Bell can be read here

Vanity Fair Hall of Fame: January, 1923. p. 68