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Author: Philippe Michel-Thiriet Publisher: Vintage ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 424
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A reference book covering all aspects of Proust's life and works. It contains facts, figures, quotations, maps, lists, anecdotes and indexes. There are details of his friends, family and lovers; his novels, their themes and style; and his domestic life, tastes and preferences.
Author: Richard Davenport-Hines Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 376
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Presents a study of the final days of the seminal author and discusses his upbringing, themes in his works, his rise as a famous writer, and the final months before his death.
Author: Philippe Michel-Thiriet Publisher: Vintage ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 424
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A reference book covering all aspects of Proust's life and works. It contains facts, figures, quotations, maps, lists, anecdotes and indexes. There are details of his friends, family and lovers; his novels, their themes and style; and his domestic life, tastes and preferences.
Author: Marcel Proust Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1625580673 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 525
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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.
Author: Marcel Proust Publisher: Cloister House Press ISBN: 9781913460402 Category : Languages : en Pages : 660
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'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' by Marcel Proust is a magnificent and towering achievement of French literature, published in English translation in twelve volumes between 1922 and 1931, and totalling nearly one and a half million words. It is difficult for many readers to find the time and motivation needed to keep going through to the end as Proust has a rich and sometimes discursive style. However, a powerful structure underlies the whole work which is not revealed till the last chapter. The Shorter Proust, which is less than a quarter of the original, includes all the crucial characters, places and themes needed to understand this and omits everything else. It is not intended to improve the original novels by editing, as many wonderful passages and descriptions have been left out. The style of the book in its vocabulary and sentence structure is unaltered. Nothing is paraphrased or condensed. The text reads as a continuous lively narrative with much of Proust's wit and humour and follows the sequence of the original, showing the development of all the major characters and including all the incidents which are referred to in the closing passages which resolve the whole novel. Proust himself encouraged the publication of "selected passages showing a coherent whole which is not diffused and will make one want to read the whole book" and this is the aim of this selection. It is intended to inspire the reader to go to the full text and enjoy individual sections in the knowledge of where they fit into the whole.
Author: Marcel Proust Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019887152X Category : Languages : en Pages : 489
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'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable first-person narrator-protagonist. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, love, and jealousy, the narrator embarks on the story of his life and the paths he takes towards fulfilling his vocation as a writer. Principally focused on the narrator's childhood, this volume lays the foundation of Proust's extraordinary literary edifice. The first volume in a major new translation of In Search of Lost Time, co-edited by Brian Nelson and Adam Watt. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: William C. Carter Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300195095 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 902
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Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, " Marcel Proust" portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. "An impeccably researched and well-paced narrative that brings vividly and credibly to life not only the writer himself but also the changing world he knew."-Roger Pearson, "New York Times Book Review" "William C. Carter is Proust's definitive biographer."-Harold Bloom Named a Notable Book of 2000 by the "New York Times Book Review""
Author: Vincent Descombes Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804720007 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 340
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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.
Author: Marcel Proust Publisher: ISBN: 9781679248320 Category : Languages : en Pages : 372
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- This version of Swanns Way: In Search of Lost Time includes a biography of the author Marcel Proust at the end of the book - This includes life before and after the release of the book In Swann's Way, the great arc of In Search of Lost Time begins with the narrator's efforts to recapture and understand his past, efforts set in motion by the taste of a madeleine soaked in tea. ... Here Proust's portrayal of the complexity of consciousness centers on the mind trying to understand itself. This is Volume 1 In the series
Author: Benjamin Taylor Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300164165 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 221
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An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "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."
Author: Leighton Hodson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113472411X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 477
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This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Author: Philippe Michel-Thiriet
Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
Author: Philippe Michel-Thiriet
Author: Marcel Proust
Author: Marcel Proust
Author: Marcel Proust
Author: William C. Carter
Author: Vincent Descombes
Author: Marcel Proust
Author: Benjamin Taylor
Author: Leighton Hodson