This 5-minute video highlights selected clips from a conversation on the work of Marcel Proust with Antoine Compagnon and Adam Gopnik, held at the Maison Française of Columbia University on Wednesday, October 28, 2009. Antoine Compagnon is the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor at the Collège de France. Adam Gopnik is an award-winning essayist and journalist for The New Yorker; his books include Paris to the Moon and, most recently, Angels and Ages.

The full conversation is available for viewing -- see other videos by the French-American Foundation.

The event was co-sponsored by the French-American Foundation, the Maison Française of Columbia University, and the Proust Society of America, a program of the Center for Fiction.