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
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