Monsieur Proust's Library
10 best books like Monsieur Proust's Library (Anka Muhlstein): Selected Letters, The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis, Narrative Discourse, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust: A Life, 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, Marcel Proust: A Life, Marcel Proust, Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
| 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 | Darryl Cunningham |
| ISBN | 1419715984 |
Tracing the emergence of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism in the 1940s to her present-day influence, Darryl Cunningham’s latest work of graphic-nonfiction investigation leads readers to the heart of the global financial crisis of 2008. Cunningham uses Rand’s biography to illuminate...
| Author | Gérard Genette |
| ISBN | 0801492599 |
Gerard Genette, a critic of international stature, here builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an analysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly Remembrance of Things Past. Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents...
| 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 | Patrick Alexander |
| ISBN | 0307472329 |
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...
| 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 | 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 | Myriam Cyr |
| ISBN | 1401360165 |
In 1669, a Parisian bookseller published a slim volume called Portuguese Letters, which unveiled a love affair between a young Portuguese nun and a French officer that had occurred a few years earlier during a war-torn period in Portugal. The book contained passionate love letters from the nun when...
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
A collection of pieces that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote for various publications that the editor James L. W. West put together showing his memoir writing. What's fascinating to me was that Fitzgerald was extremely famous at the time of these articles - so he conveys himself as a character that the public...
| 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...
| 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...
| Author | William H. Gass |
| ISBN | 0307262863 |
From one of the most admired essayists and novelists at work today: a new collection of essays—his first since Tests of Time, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from...
| Author | Raymond Roussel |
| ISBN | 1878972146 |
Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the twentieth century. His unearthly style based on elaborate linguistic riddles and puns fascinated the Surrealists and famously influenced the composition...
| Author | David Giffels |
| ISBN | 1501105949 |
“A lifetime’s worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son” (Kirkus Reviews)—the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking project—constructing,...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 2762123216 |
Although Edna O'Brien has never trafficked in James Joyce's head-over-heels brand of high modernism, she does have a couple of characteristics in common with her great predecessor. After all, both authors engaged in a profoundly ambivalent excoriation of their native Ireland. And while O'Brien's...
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt
The journal of the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature, a work that in its richness of...
