A Reader S Handbook To Proust

Author : Patrick Alexander
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307472328

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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time by Patrick Alexander Pdf

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 pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as engaging and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust’s genius and appeal—he calls the work “outrageously bawdy and extremely funny”—and in his guide he makes it more accessible to the general reader through detailed plot summaries, historical and cultural background, a guide to the fifty most important characters, maps, family trees, illustrations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essential for readers and book groups currently reading Proust and who want help keeping track of the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader’s Guide is also a wonderful introduction for students and new readers and a memory-refresher for long-time fans.

Author : David Ellison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521895774

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A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' by David Ellison Pdf

A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.

Author : Philip Anthony Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849224918

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A Reader's Handbook to Proust by Philip Anthony Spalding Pdf

Author : Philip Anthony Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:39000003442725

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A Reader's Handbook to Proust by Philip Anthony Spalding Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:656135848

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A Reader's Handbook to Proust; an Index-Guide to Remembrance of Things Past; Compiled by P.A. Spalding by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Anthony Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459654087

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A Reader's Handbook to Proust. An index guide to "Remembrance of Things Past." Compiled by P. A. Spalding by Philip Anthony Spalding Pdf

Author : Roger Shattuck
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393078701

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Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time by Roger Shattuck Pdf

"Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times 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 readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece, and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way, the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.

Author : David Ellison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139789097

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A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' by David Ellison Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015000787573

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A Reader's Guide to Remembrance of Things Past by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307833495

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How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton Pdf

A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times). Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres—literary biography and self-help manual—in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and unclichéd articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on a first date. It took de Botton to find the inspirational in Proust's essays, letters and fiction and, perhaps even more surprising, to draw out a vivid and clarifying portrait of the master from between the lines of his work. Here is Proust as we have never seen or read him before: witty, intelligent, pragmatic. He might well change your life.

Author : Richard Bales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669618

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The Cambridge Companion to Proust by Richard Bales Pdf

This Companion, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's work.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513288451

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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Pdf

Swann’s Way (1913) is the first volume of Marcel Proust’s seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time. Written while Proust was virtually confined to his bedroom from a lifelong respiratory illness, Swann’s Way is a story of memory, history, family, and romance from a master of Modernist literature. Praised by Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Chabon, and Graham Greene, In Search of Lost Time explores the nature of memory and time while illuminating the history of homosexuality in nineteenth century Europe. For a long time I used to go to bed early.” Alone in his bedroom, the narrator meditates on sleep, dreams, and the passing of time. Spurred into memory by the taste of a madeleine dipped in a cup of lime blossom tea, he recalls his childhood in Combray, a rural village on the outskirts of Paris. Slowly, faces and names from the past come back to him—he recalls a neighbor named Swann, whose promising marriage proved disastrous; his Jewish friend Bloch, who introduced him to literature; and the walks he would take with his parents through the beautiful countryside. As he grows and learns, he begins to recognize the reality concealed by convention: the secret liaisons between lovers; the petty competitions of artists; the fleeting nature of affection and lust alike. Written in flowing prose, Swann’s Way is a masterpiece of twentieth century fiction that continues to entertain and astound over a century after it appeared in print. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Alex George
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250307194

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The Paris Hours by Alex George Pdf

“Like All the Light We Cannot See, The Paris Hours explores the brutality of war and its lingering effects with cinematic intensity. The ending will leave you breathless.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train and A Piece of the World One day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time. Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost. Camille was the maid of Marcel Proust, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer’s notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now she is desperate to find it before her betrayal is revealed. Souren, an Armenian refugee, performs puppet shows for children that are nothing like the fairy tales they expect. Lovesick artist Guillaume is down on his luck and running from a debt he cannot repay—but when Gertrude Stein walks into his studio, he wonders if this is the day everything could change. And Jean-Paul is a journalist who tells other people’s stories, because his own is too painful to tell. When the quartet’s paths finally cross in an unforgettable climax, each discovers if they will find what they are looking for. Told over the course of a single day in 1927, The Paris Hours takes four ordinary people whose stories, told together, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.

Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611172560

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Understanding Marcel Proust by Allen Thiher Pdf

Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust’s development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust’s major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition while also demonstrating its radical newness as a narrative. In his introduction Allen Thiher outlines Proust's development in the context of the political and artistic life of the Third Republic, arguing that everything Proust wrote before In Search of Lost Time was an experiment in sorting out whether he wanted to be a writer of critical theory or of fiction. Ultimately, Thiher observes, all these experiments had a role in the elaboration of the novel. Proust became both theorist and fiction writer by creating a bildungsroman narrating a writer's education. What is perhaps most original about Thiher’s interpretation, however, is his demonstration that Proust removed his aged narrator from the novel’s temporal flow to achieve a kind of fictional transcendence. Proust never situates his narrator in historical time, which allows him to demonstrate concretely what he sees as the function of art: the truth of the absolute particular removed from time’s determinations. The artist that the narrator hopes to become at the end of the novel must pursue his own individual truths—those in fact that the novel has narrated, for him and the reader, up to the novel’s conclusion. Written in a language accessible to upper-level undergraduates as well as literate general readers, Understanding Marcel Proust simultaneously addresses a scholarly public aware of the critical arguments that Proust's work has generated. Thiher's study should make Proust's In Search of Lost Time more widely accessible by explicating its structure and themes.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987605586

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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Pdf

In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". Still widely referred to in English as Remembrance of Things Past, the title In Search of Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has gained in usage since D.J. Enright's 1992 revision of the earlier translation by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Swann's Way is the first volume.