Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa’s Profile

1948: Born in Osaka
1977: Received doctorate in literature in Paris-Sorbonne University
1977: Completed doctorate course without a degree at the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Tokyo
1978: Lecturer at Tokyo Women’s University
1991: Head of the Japanese Society of Proustian Studies (ongoing)
1993: Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University
2005: Professor at Kyoto University
2009-2013: Chairman of the Japanese Society of French Language and Literature
2012: Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University

Main Translations

• Marcel Proust, Contre Sainte-Beuve (co-authored with Yuko Deguchi), Chikuma Shobo, Complete Works of Proust 14, 1986
• Maurice Barrès, Greco ou le secret de Tolède, Chikuma Shobo, 1996
• Jean-Yves Tadié, Marcel Proust: A Life, Chikuma Shobo, 2001
• Antoine Compagnon, Le démon de la théorie (co-authored with Yoshikazu Nakaji) Iwanami Shoten, 2007
• Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, All 14 Vols., Iwanami Bunko, 2010-2019

Main Works

• Contemporary French Dictionary Le Dico, (co-edited with Susumu Chujoya, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Gabriel Mehrenberger), Hakusuisha, 1993
• The Proust Museum: The Painters of In Search of Lost Time, Chikuma Shobo, 1998
• Index général de la Correspondance de Marcel Proust, établi sous la direction de Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, avec la collaboration de membres de la Société d’études proustiennes, Pressses de l’Université de Kyoto, 1998.
• Dico French-Japanese Dictionary (co-edited, Revised Third Edition of Contemporary French Dictionary), Hakusuisha, 1993
• Reading the World of Proust, Iwanami Shoten, 2004
• Reading Proust’s Swann in Love, Hakusuisha, 2004
• Dictionnaire Marcel Proust (wrote 43 entries), sous la direction d’Annick Bouillaguet et Brian Rogers, Champion, 2004.
• Proust and Painting: From the Reception of Rembrandt to the Creation of Elstir Iwanami Shoten, 2008
• Proust et l’art pictural, Champion, 2010 (2011 Madeline d’Or Literary Prize from the Cabourg-Balbec Proustian Literary Circle, 2012 Imperial Prize of the Japanese Academy)