Dr. Max McGuinness is a Teaching Fellow in French at Trinity College Dublin. He previously taught at University College Dublin, the University of Limerick, and Columbia University, where he received his PhD in French in 2019. His first book – published this Spring – is Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust (Liverpool University Press, 2024), which explores how French modernist writers used the press as a forum for literary experimentation. He is currently co-editing a collection about Marcel Proust and Ireland, The Irish Proust, which is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic. Other publications include articles in the Bulletin d’informations proustiennes, Dix-Neuf, French Studies Bulletin, and Paragraph. Max is also a theatre critic for The Financial Times and has written for many other newspapers and magazines, including The Irish Times, The New European, Air Mail, The Daily Beast, and Private Eye.

Here we delve into this dense, lovingly layered study of the French writing and journalism that arose during a period of intense change and experimentation

Episode Credits:

Host: Luke Sheehan

Episode Music:

Played by: National Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

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