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10 best books like Marcel Proust: A Life (William C. Carter): The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past, Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time, Monsieur Proust's Library, Marcel Proust: A Life, Marcel Proust, Monsieur Proust, Proust and Signs: The Complete Text, The American Years

The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
AuthorÉmile Mâle
ISBN0064300323
Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography used in...
Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
AuthorEric Karpeles
ISBN0500238545
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Not only are there frequent references to specific works of art, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings. Bloch’s appearance as a boy is likened to...
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past
AuthorPatrick Alexander
ISBN0307472329
An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired--and entertaining--novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.

At seven volumes, three thousand...
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time
AuthorRoger Shattuck
ISBN0393321800
For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently...
Monsieur Proust's Library
AuthorAnka Muhlstein
ISBN1590515668
Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a fictional personage without a book in hand. Two hundred of his creatures inhabit his fictional world, and sixty writers hover over them. These writers--among them various classical authors of the seventeenth...
Marcel Proust: A Life
AuthorJean-Yves Tadié
ISBN0141002034
Marcel Proust was arguably the greatest writer of the twentieth century. This fascinating, definitive biography by the premier world authority on Proust redefines the way we look at both the artist and the man. A bestseller in France, where it was originally published to great critical acclaim, Jean-Yves...
Marcel Proust
AuthorEdmund White
ISBN0670880574
Conveniently concise. Enough to sketch you in on the main question marks over Proust the man: his Jewishness, his friendships, his relationships, his health, his writing. White portrays his infamous snobbishness as somewhat tempered by compassion, and counters the legend of ivory tower incarceration...
Monsieur Proust
AuthorCéleste Albaret
ISBN1590170598
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
AuthorGilles Deleuze
The essential work on Proust, in a complete English translation for the first time.

What is the nature of the search in A la recherche du temps perdu ?It is not quite so simple as the English rendering of the title of Proust's masterpiece: In Search of Lost Time. In a remarkable instance of literary...
The American Years
AuthorBrian Boyd
ISBN0691024715
“...every dimension presupposes a medium within which it can act, and if, in the spiral unwinding of things, space warps into something akin to time, and time, in its turn, warps into something akin to thought, then, surely, another dimension follows.”
-Speak, Memory



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Letters of Marcel Proust
AuthorMarcel Proust
ISBN1885586450
This wonderful collection of Marcel Proust's Letters, selected and translated by Mina Curtiss, is both a revelatory introduction to the great writer and a treasure trove for those readers more familiar with "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu". Mina Curtiss especially chose them as apt illustrations...
Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust
AuthorLorenza Foschini
ISBN0061965677
Jacques Guérin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in search of lost, forgotten treasures. The ultimate...
The Proust Project
AuthorAndré Aciman
Discovering Proust is like wandering through a totally unfamiliar land and finding it peopled with kindred spirits and sister souls and fellow countrymen . . . They speak our language, our dialect, share our blind-spots and are awkward in exactly the same way we are, just as their manner of lacing every...
Proust
AuthorSamuel Beckett
ISBN0714500348
Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work, was written in 1931. It is a brilliant work of critical insight that also tells us much about its author's own thinking and preoccupations. In its own right it is a masterpiece of literary...
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
AuthorPaul De Man
ISBN0300028458

This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust.  The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by these authors, and they return to the...
The Passion of Michel Foucault
AuthorJames Miller
ISBN0674001575
Here is a condensed version of this book:

Michel Foucault was gay. He was a philosopher and was gay. He had gay sex, with men who were also gay but probably not as gay as he was. He was profoundly influenced by Samuel Beckett, who was not gay, but Foucault was gay enough for everyone. He was also influenced...
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
AuthorJames Knowlson
ISBN0802141250
Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly recreates Beckett's life...
The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time
AuthorPhyllis Rose
ISBN1582430551
A brilliant and original memoir of midlife-a writing life, a reading life, a woman's life-by the distinguished author of Parallel Lives
Phyllis Rose, a biographer, essayist, and literary critic, finally got around to reading Proust in middle age. As Rose learned, you don't have to live through...
Samuel Beckett
AuthorDeirdre Bair
ISBN0671691732
SAMUEL BECKETT is the first biography of the Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright. A monumental work of scholarship - arguably the most important book about Beckett ever published - SAMUEL BECKETT is also fascinating reading. Beckett's life has been as rich as his writing is spare, and Deirdre...
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage
AuthorRichard Holmes
ISBN0679757708
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage recounts a story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship between Richard Savage - poet, playwright, and convicted murderer - and the young Samuel Johnson, an unknown provincial schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary fortune. In a book that the...
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