Marcel Proust

Author : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Europa Compass
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : William C. Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300191790

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Marcel Proust by William C. Carter Pdf

Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, this title portrays in abundant detail the life and times of literary voices of the twentieth century.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 4832 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645689

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The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle by Marcel Proust Pdf

Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained. Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” Edmund Wilson proposed that he was “perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” And Virginia Woolf celebrated Proust for “his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity.” The prolific French master dazzled many of the most cherished authors of our time, and now his signature work comes alive in this practical and completely accessible eBook bundle. For these Modern Library volumes, D. J. Enright revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworkings of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s and Andreas Mayor’s translations to match the definitive French editions published in recent decades. Expertly and lovingly crafted to rival Marcel Proust’s original in elegance, precision, and emotional resonance, here is In Search of Lost Time as it was meant to be read.

Author : George Duncan Painter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : UOM:39015002203464

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Marcel Proust by George Duncan Painter Pdf

Author : George Duncan Painter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : OCLC:1176321077

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Marcel Proust by George Duncan Painter Pdf

Biografi om den franske forfatter (1871-1922).

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116068

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Marcel Proust by Harold Bloom Pdf

A guide to three novels by Marcel Proust containing selections of critical essays, plot summaries for each work, and a biography of Proust.

Author : Philip Thody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038371063

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Marcel Proust by Philip Thody Pdf

The starting point of A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) is an experience everyone has had. We have all had a physical sensation that has reminded us so vividly of a moment in our past that we have almost ceased to be aware of the present. Marcel Proust immortalized this in the first volume of his fifteen-volume novel, in 1913. But the novel, completed just before his death in 1922, deals with many other themes. It is an account of how the narrator, Marcel, discovers his vocation as an artist and explores the nature of art. As a psychological novel, it studies jealousy and how the emotional traumas we undergo in childhood can influence our adult lives. It is the first major novel to offer a detailed account of male and female homosexuality. It is a satirical analysis of French upper-class society at the turn of the century. It also shows how this society changes with time. Philip Thody offers a straightforward analysis of how Proust's novel is constructed, what it contains, and how its themes can be related to our experiences as members of American or English society in the late twentieth century.

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101202821

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Marcel Proust by Edmund White Pdf

If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive work through the night, but also the darling of Parisian salons, the grasper after honors, and the closeted homosexual-a subject this book is the first to explore openly. From the frothiest gossip to the deepest angst, here is a moving portrait to be treasured by anyone looking for an introduction to this literary icon.

Author : Patrick Alexander
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Herbert Morris
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557052059

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Artists in Evil: An Essay on Evil and Redemption in Marcel Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Herbert Morris Pdf

Author : Leo Bersani
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199931514

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Marcel Proust by Leo Bersani Pdf

Oxford University Press published eminent literary critic Leo Bersani's first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the work has long been out of print. This new edition comes in response to a recent renewal of interest among philosophers of literature, among others, and features a new preface from the author.

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139500234

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The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust by Adam Watt Pdf

Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Marcel Proust,Golden Deer Classics
Publisher : Oregan Publishing
Page : 3444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788822831750

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Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7] (Golden Deer Classics) by Marcel Proust,Golden Deer Classics Pdf

In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu)— previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871–1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being 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, has gained usage since D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992. 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.

Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.