Jean-Yves Tadié

Jean-Yves Tadié (born 1936) is a French writer, specializing in Marcel Proust. His 800-page biography of Proust was well-received, asserted by Edmund White in his own book on Proust to be the best work of its kind. Briefly a professor in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, Tadié was then, until his retirement, a professor at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and director of the collections "Classical Folio" and "Theatre Folio".

He was also a director of the French Institute of London.

Selected bibliography

• Introduction à la vie littéraire du XIXe siècle, Bordas, 1971.
• Lectures de Proust, Colin, 1971.
• Proust et le Roman, Gallimard, 1971.
• Le Récit poétique, PUF, 1978 ; Gallimard, 1994.
• Le Roman d’aventures, PUF, 1982.
• Proust, Belfond, 1983.
• La Critique littéraire au XXe siècle, Belfond, 1987.
• Études proustiennes I à VI, Gallimard, 1973-1988.
• Le Roman au XXe siècle, Belfond, 1990.
• Portrait de l’artiste, Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Marcel Proust, biographie, Gallimard, 1996. (English translation ISBN 0141002034)
• Le Sens de la mémoire (avec Marc Tadié), Gallimard, 1999.
• Proust, la cathédrale du temps, Gallimard, coll. “Découvertes”, 1999.
• Regarde de tous tes yeux, regarde ! Gallimard, 2005.
• De Proust à Dumas, Gallimard, 2006.