Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past
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| Author | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné |
One of the world's greatest correspondents, Madame de Sevigne (1626-96) paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of France at the time of Louis XIV, in eloquent letters written throughout her life to family and friends. A significant figure in French society and literary circles, whose close friends...
| Author | Michael Dirda |
| ISBN | 0393329631 |
Surveying the dizzying universe of classic books, Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary essayist, proves himself to be one of the most engaging critics of our time—and great fun to read. Opening with an impassioned critique of modern reading habits, he then presents many of the great,...
| Author | Eric Karpeles |
| ISBN | 0500238545 |
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...
| Author | William C. Carter |
| ISBN | 0300081456 |
This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. Based on a host of recently available letters, memoirs, and manuscripts, it sheds new light on Proust's character, his development as an artist, and his masterpiece...
| Author | Roger Shattuck |
| ISBN | 0393321800 |
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...
| Author | Anka Muhlstein |
| ISBN | 1590515668 |
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...
| Author | Jean-Yves Tadié |
| ISBN | 0141002034 |
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...
| Author | Edmund White |
| ISBN | 0670880574 |
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...
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...
| Author | Hugh Kenner |
| ISBN | 0520024273 |
"Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis...
| Author | Edmund Wilson |
| ISBN | 0374529272 |
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust,...
| Author | Lorenza Foschini |
| ISBN | 0061965677 |
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...
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...
| Author | Samuel Beckett |
| ISBN | 0714500348 |
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
| Author | Paul De Man |
| ISBN | 0300028458 |
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...
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0786704543 |
Acknowledgment
Introduction, by Terence Kilmartin
Prologue
--Contre Sainte-Beuve
Miscellaneous Writings
Proust the Critic
--Against the young writers of the day
--On taste
--A history of French satire
--A Sunday concert at the Conservatoire
--Patriotism...
Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery
| Author | Brian Boyd |
| ISBN | 0691089574 |
Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically different...
| Author | Malcolm Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0140138323 |
History
Any reader of literary fiction from the last 120 years will sooner or later encounter the distinction between Modernism and Post-Modernism.
My teenage years coincided with the 1970's. During this period I became a consumer and advocate of Modernism, whether or not I could...
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 1594481385 |
A critical novel about the ways in which we absorb various forms of wisdom from the literature we consume, from the author The New York Times calls "the most influential critic of the last quarter-century."
In one of his most inspiring books yet, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic,...
