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Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

10 best books like Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time (Roger Shattuck): 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: A Life, Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past, Monsieur Proust's Library, Marcel Proust: A Life, Marcel Proust, Monsieur Proust, Proust and Signs: The Complete Text, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

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: A Life
AuthorWilliam C. Carter
ISBN0300081456
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...
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...
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...
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN0374529272
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,...
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 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...
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
AuthorAsti Hustvedt
ISBN1890951072
In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-siecle: crime, pollution, sexually...
The Country Waif (Francois Le Champi)
AuthorGeorge Sand
The Country Waif (François le Champi) is the second of the three pastoral novels which rank along with George Sand's autobiographical writing as her finest work. Although simple in themselves, these tales have behind them much of the complex experience of her extraordinary life. As Mrs. Zimmerman...
Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral
AuthorPhilip Ball
ISBN0061154296
Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? And why, during this period, did Europeans begin to build churches in a new style, at such...
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan
AuthorGeorge Steiner
ISBN0811219453
With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great style. Sweeping yet precise, moving from essential detail...
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