Author: Richard BalesPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600035392
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Role of the Middle Ages in Proust
Author: William Enloe CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Ages in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Proust and the Middle Ages
Author: Richard BalesPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600035392
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Proust and the Middle Ages
Author: Richard BalesProust
Author: Benjamin TaylorPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030016596X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
“Taylor’s endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust’s imagination and, albeit sometimes completely transformed, appeared in his work. The result is a very subtle, thought-provoking book.”—Anka Muhlstein, author of Balzac’s Omelette and Monsieur Proust’s Library Marcel Proust came into his own as a novelist comparatively late in life, yet only Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky were his equals when it came to creating characters as memorably human. As biographer Benjamin Taylor suggests, Proust was a literary lightweight before writing his multivolume masterwork In Search of Lost Time, but following a series of momentous historical and personal events, he became—against all expectations—one of the greatest writers of his, and indeed any, era. This insightful, beautifully written biography examines Proust’s artistic struggles—the “search” of the subtitle—and stunning metamorphosis in the context of his times. Taylor provides an in-depth study of the author’s life while exploring how Proust’s personal correspondence and published works were greatly informed by his mother’s Judaism, his homosexuality, and such dramatic events as the Dreyfus Affair and, above all, World War I. As Taylor writes in his prologue, “Proust’s Search is the most encyclopedic of novels, encompassing the essentials of human nature. . . . His account, running from the early years of the Third Republic to the aftermath of World War I, becomes the inclusive story of all lives, a colossal mimesis. To read the entire Search is to find oneself transfigured and victorious at journey’s end, at home in time and in eternity too.”
In Memory of the Murdered Churches
Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: Newcomb Livraria Press
ISBN: 3989888684
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 78
Book Description
A new translation from the original French manuscripts of Marcel Proust's 1921 "In Memory of the Murdered Churches" (En Memoire De Eglises Assassinees). This edition contains a new Afterword by the translator, a timeline of Proust's life and works and a glossary of philosophic concepts in his body of work. Here Proust mournfully reflects upon the disappearance of sacred spaces and explores themes of loss, memory, and the passage of time. With evocative descriptions and personal reflections, he captures the significance of these lost architectural and spiritual landmarks, shedding light on the fragility of human creations and the collective memory. The work addresses how the absence of churches affects our understanding of history and our connection with the past, making it a poignant exploration of cultural heritage.
Swann's Way
Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625580673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood-a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel Swann's Love, an incomparable study of sexual jealousy, which becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the book that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age-satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition-Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory.
Remembrance of Things Past Swanns Way
Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425051456
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The initial part of the story focuses on the romantic life of a middle aged man named Swann. Proust has used poetic style of words to describe the nature and environment of France. His sentence structure is impressive and filled with searing, insightful, and humorous criticisms of French society....
Swann's Way
Author: Marcel ProustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu), also translated as Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust (1871-1922). It is his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory; the most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine," which occurs early in the first volume. It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, became ascendant after D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992.In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th century and early 20th century aristocratic France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning to the world. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages, as they existed only in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.
A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'
Author: David EllisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139789090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' (In Search of Lost Time) is many things at once: a novel of education, a portrait of French society during the Third Republic, a masterful psychological analysis of love, a reflection on homosexuality, an essay in moral and aesthetic theory, and, above all, one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. This Reader's Guide analyses each volume of the 'Recherche' in order and in detail. Without jargon or technical language, David Ellison leads the reader through the work, clarifying but not oversimplifying the intricate beauty of Proust's imaginary universe. Focused both on large themes and on narrative and stylistic particularities, Ellison's readings expand our understanding and appreciation of the work and provide tools for the further study of Proust. All French quotations are translated, making this an ideal guide for students of comparative literature as well as of French.
The Guermantes Way
Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300186193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust's epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. This edition of volume three, The Guermantes Way, is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Carter, who endeavors to bring the classic C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of the author's original text. Continuing the story begun in Swann's Way and continued in In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way follows Proust's young protagonist as he advances through aristocratic French society in late-nineteenth-century Paris. A departure from the intimacy of the sprawling novel's previous two installments, part three unfolds against a colorful backdrop of Parisian life, moving from literary salon to opulent social gathering to provide a biting and satirical commentary on culture, human foibles, the ways of the world, and the irretrievable loss of time.