She has translated a number of French philosophy and literature works, most notably Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

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Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life.

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For this reason, Bonnard has been compared with another French artist obsessed with memory and the passage of time: the writer Marcel Proust.

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