Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
By Way of Sainte-Beuve
Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
By Way Of Saint-Beuve (Contre Sainte-Beuve)
Author: Marcel ProustMapping Lives
Author: Peter FrancePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263181
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
These essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture.
Volupte
Author: Charles-Augustin Sainte-BeuvePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791424520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This is the first English translation of a pre-Freudian psychological novel. The narrator victimizes women while feeling victimized by his own sensuality.
By Way of Sainte-Beuve (Contre Sainte-Beuve). Translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Author: Marcel ProustContre Sainte-Beuve. By Way of Sainte-Beuve ... Translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Author: Marcel ProustProust
Author: Vincent DescombesPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804720007
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Through the voice of the narrator of Remembrance of Things Past, Proust observes of the painter Elstir that the paintings are bolder than the artist; Elstir the painter is bolder than Elstir the theorist. This book applies the same distinction Proust; the Proustian novel is bolder than Proust the theorist. By this the author means that the novel is philosophically bolder, that it pursues further the task Proust identifies as the writer's work: to explain life, to elucidate what has been lived in obscurity and confusion. In this, the novelist and the philosopher share a common goal: to clarify the obscure in order to arrive at the truth. It follows that Proust's real philosophy of the novel is to be found not in the speculative passages of Remembrance, which merely echo the philosophical commonplaces of his time, but in the truly novelistic or narrative portions of his text. In Against Sainte-Beuve, Proust sets forth his ideas about literature in the form of a critique of the method of Sainte-Beuve. Scholars who have studied Proust's notebooks describe the way in which this essay was taken over by bits of narrative originally intended as illustration supporting its theses. The philosophical portions of Remembrance were not added to the narrative as an afterthought, designed to bring out its meaning. What happened was the reverse: the novel was born of a desire to illustrate the propositions of the essay. Why then should we not find the novel more philosophically advanced than the essay? Reversing the usual order followed by literary critics, the author interprets the novel as an elucidation, and not as a simple transposition, of the essay. The book is not only a general interpretation of Proust's novel and its construction; it includes detailed discussions of such topics as literature and philosophy, the nature of the literary genres, the poetics of the novel, the definition of art, modernity and postmodernity, and the sociology of literature.
La Folie Baudelaire
Author: Roberto CalassoPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374183341
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Looks at the life, influence, and work of the French writer and founder of modernism.
“The” Essays of Sainte-Beuve
Author: Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuvePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Lemoine Affair
Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Their friend Marcel Proust had killed himself after the fall in diamond shares, a collapse that annihilated a part of his fortune. This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from coal and convinced numerous people—including officers of the De Beers diamond mine company and Proust himself—to invest in the scheme. In a series of pastiches—imitations written in the style of other writers—Proust tells the story of the embarrassment rippling across high society Paris in the wake of the scandal, poking fun at himself (in one story, a character declares that Marcel Proust is so embarrassed he’s suicidal) while lampooning some of France’s greatest writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, and Saint-Simon. Full of sophisticated wit and dazzling wordplay, and rife with allusions to his friend and fictional characters, many Proust scholars see the dead-on mimicry of The Lemoine Affair—written soon after Proust’s rejection of society life—as the work by which he honed his own unique, masterly voice. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.