Living And Dying With Marcel Proust

Author : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Europa Compass
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1609457609

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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust by Christopher Prendergast Pdf

A Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book of 2022 Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime's reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, Proust's In Search of Lost Time describes a unique journey, combining elements drawn from the timeless narratives of great expectations and lost illusions. In this lively and entertaining book, Christopher Prendergast traces that journey as it unfolds on an arc defined by the polarities in his title: living and dying. At once a careful contemplation Proust's masterwork and an exploration of the rich sensory and impressionistic tapestry of a lived world, Living and Dying with Marcel Proust addresses such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food, digestion, color, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humor. Entertaining and erudite, Prendergast's book will surely become the companion for all readers either about to reembark on Proust's three-million-word journey or setting out for the first time.

Author : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781787703520

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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust by Christopher Prendergast Pdf

A LIFETIME'S READING OF PROUST'S MASTERPIECE "A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity."—Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster " Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast."—Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, A la recherche du temps perdu belongs in the tradition of the Initiation Story, the journey it describes combining elements drawn from the earlier narratives of great expectations and lost illusions, while recasting them in ways that are distinctively Proust's. On the year that marks the centenary of Marcel Proust's death, the eminent literary scholar, Christopher Prendergast, traces that journey as it unfolds on an arc defined by the polarity of his title, living and dying. His book offers a chapter by chapter exploration of the rich sensory and impressionistic tapestry of a lived world, woven by the pulse of desire, the hauntings of memory and an ever alert responsiveness to tastes, perfumes, sounds, and colours. It also traces the construction of a unique architecture of narrative time and a corresponding mode of story-telling, marked by all manner of loops, swerves, detours, regressions and returns, from the macro level of the novel's plot to the micro level of the famously elaborate Proustian sentence. The lives of his characters, both major and minor, are shown as criss-crossing and converging in ways that often take the reader by surprise, before descending the arc on an irreversible trajectory of decline, as the body starts to fail and the grave beckons.

Author : Martin Hägglund
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674070844

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Dying for Time by Martin Hägglund Pdf

Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time—whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hägglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to transcend time, he argues. On the contrary, it is generated by the investment in temporal life. From this vantage point, Hägglund offers in-depth analyses of Proust’s Recherche, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Nabokov’s Ada. Through his readings of literary works, Hägglund also sheds new light on topics of broad concern in the humanities, including time consciousness and memory, trauma and survival, the technology of writing and the aesthetic power of art. Finally, he develops an original theory of the relation between time and desire through an engagement with Freud and Lacan, addressing mourning and melancholia, pleasure and pain, attachment and loss. Dying for Time opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.

Author : Patrick Alexander
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064905527

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Proust at the Majestic by Richard Davenport-Hines Pdf

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 : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691155203

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Mirages and Mad Beliefs by Christopher Prendergast Pdf

Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs, Christopher Prendergast argues the case differently, with the grain, on the basis that Proust himself was prey to self-doubt and found numerous, if indirect, ways of letting us know. Prendergast traces in detail the locations and forms of a quietly nondogmatic yet insistently skeptical voice that questions the redemptive aesthetic the novel is so often taken to celebrate, bringing the reader to wonder whether that aesthetic is but another instance of the mirage or the mad belief that, in other guises, figures prominently in In Search of Lost Time. In tracing the modalities of this self-pressuring voice, Prendergast ranges far and wide, across a multiplicity of ideas, themes, sources, and stylistic registers in Proust's literary thought and writing practice, attentive at every point to inflections of detail, in a sustained account of Proust the skeptic for the contemporary reader.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780815412649

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The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust by Marcel Proust Pdf

This volume gathers together all of Marcel Proust's short fiction and six tales never before translated into English.

Author : Roger Shattuck
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : George Duncan Painter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : UOM:39015002203464

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Marcel Proust by George Duncan Painter Pdf

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780861540150

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The Mysterious Correspondent by Marcel Proust Pdf

'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust’s life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was nurturing for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. Or perhaps, in dealing directly with gay desire, they were too audacious – too near to life – for the censorious society of the time. In these stories, published in English for the first time, we find an intimate portrait of a young author full of darkness, complexity and melancholy, longing to reveal himself to the world.

Author : Malcolm Bowie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231114915

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Proust Among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie Pdf

Self --Time --Art --Politics --Morality --Sex --Death.

Author : Elisabeth Ladenson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801435951

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Proust's Lesbianism by Elisabeth Ladenson Pdf

For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction--his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Traditional readings of the Recherche have dismissed Proust's "Gomorrah"--his term for women who love other women--as a veiled portrayal of the novelist's own homosexuality. More recently, "queer-positive" rereadings have viewed the novel's treatment of female sexuality as ancillary to its accounts of Sodom and its meditations on time and memory. Ladenson instead demonstrates the primacy of lesbianism to the novel, showing that Proust's lesbians are the only characters to achieve a plenitude of reciprocated desire. The example of Sodom, by contrast, is characterized by frustrated longing and self-loathing. She locates the work's paradigm of hermetic relations between women in the self-sufficient bond between the narrator's mother and grandmother. Ladenson traces Proust's depictions of male and female homosexuality from his early work onward, and contextualizes his account of lesbianism in late-nineteenth-century sexology and early twentieth-century thought. A vital contribution to the fields of queer theory and of French literature and culture, Ladenson's book marks a new stage in Proust studies and provides a fascinating chapter in the history of a literary masterpiece's reception.

Author : Maurizio Ferraris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004431232

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Learning to Live: Six Essays on Marcel Proust by Maurizio Ferraris Pdf

Maurizio Ferraris explores how, through the reading of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, one can explore memory, art, and society, using the book as a guide for living life.

Author : David Ellison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Eric Karpeles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106019865325

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Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles Pdf

"Eric Karpele's guide offers a feast for the eyes as it celebrates the close relationship between the visual and literary arts in Proust's masterpiece, Karpeles has identified and located all of the paintings to which Proust makes exact reference. Where only a painter's name is mentioned to indicate a certain mood or appearance, he has chosen a representative work to illustrate the impression that Proust sought to evoke. Botticelli's angels, Manet's courtesans, Mantegna's warriors and Carpaccio's saints stand among Monet's water lilies and Piranesi's engravings of Rome, while Karpeles's insightful essay and lucid contextual commentary explain their significance to Proust. Extensive notes and a comprehensive index of all painters and paintings mentioned in the novel provide an invaluable resource for the reader navigating In Search of Lost Time for the first time or the fifth."--BOOK JACKET.