Luigi Pirandello
Poet, translator, soldier, spy? Remembering the man who brought Proust to the English world
If you’ve ever struggled through Marcel Proust’s seven-volume epic, “Remembrance of Things Past,” you have C.K. Scott Moncrieff to thank. Moncrieff introduced the French novelist to the world with his translation, while also living lives as a poet, soldier and spy in his own right.