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Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : 0002118726
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015047723823
The final, moving volume of one of the greatest collections of correspondence in world literature. Foreword by Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change your Life.
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : UOM:39015018315955
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : 0195059611
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015021530467
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : London : Collins
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015010346834
Author : Cynthia J. Gamble
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1883479363
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : UCAL:B5086563
Author : Steve Bachmann
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781939994455
Proust For Beginners is a compelling biography of French novelist Marcel Proust and a vivid portrait of his times. It also serves as a concise guide and critical review of In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, 7 volumes, 1913–1927), one of the most difficult—yet widely taught—works of French literature. With extensive passages from In Search of Lost Time and other essential works, Proust For Beginners highlights the defining themes and unique literary style of a modern master whom many have heard about but few fully fathom. It portrays Proust and the milieu in which he wrote in vivid detail, bringing to life the “Proustian moments” at the heart of his greatest work—and our own everyday experience. Proust’s masterpiece “begins in a series of rooms in which he unlocks themes, styles, references, and foreshadows,” writes Harold Augenbraum in the foreword. Proust For Beginners will provide the key.
Author : Gian Balsamo
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611177374
This study explores the surprising relationship between Proust’s creative genius, his financial extravagance, and the steady hand that kept him afloat. What Marcel Proust wanted from life most of all was unconditional requited love, and the way he went after it—smothering the objects of his affection with gifts—cost him a fortune. To pay for such extravagance, he engaged in daring speculations on the stock exchange. The task of his cousin and financial adviser, Lionel Hauser, was to make sure these speculations would not go sour. In Proust and His Banker, Gian Balsamo examines this vital, complex relationship and reveals that the author’s liberal squandering of money provided the grist for many of the fictional characters and dramatic events he wrote about. Focusing on hundreds of letters between Proust and Hauser among other archival and primary sources, Balsamo provides a fascinating window into the writer’s creative process, his financial activities, and the surprising relationship between the two. Successes and failures alike provided material for Proust’s fiction, whether from the purchase of an airplane for the object of his affections or the investigation of a deceased love’s intimate background. Over the course of their fifteen-year collaboration, the banker saw Proust squander three-fifths of his wealth. To Hauser the writer was a virtuoso in resource mismanagement. Nonetheless, Balsamo shows, we owe it to the altruism of this generous relative, who never thought twice about sacrificing his own time and resources to Proust, that In Search of Lost Time was ever completed.
Author : Bill Goldstein
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781627795296
A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR's Book Concierge A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published in February and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished—and published to acclaim—“The Waste Land." As Willa Cather put it, “The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,” and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on original research, Bill Goldstein's The World Broke in Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231136150
Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a unique pedagogical experiment: he combined teaching and writing to "simulate" the trial of novel-writing, exploring every step of the creative process along the way. Barthes's lectures move from the desire to write to the actual decision making, planning, and material act of producing a novel. He meets the difficulty of transitioning from short, concise notations (exemplified by his favorite literary form, haiku) to longer, uninterrupted flows of narrative, and he encounters a number of setbacks. Barthes takes solace in a diverse group of writers, including Dante, whose La Vita Nuova was similarly inspired by the death of a loved one, and he turns to classical philosophy, Taoism, and the works of François-René Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust. This book uniquely includes eight elliptical plans for Barthes's unwritten novel, which he titled Vita Nova, and lecture notes that sketch the critic's views on photography. Following on The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977-1978) and a third forthcoming collection of Barthes lectures, this volume provides an intensely personal account of the labor and love of writing.
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Mothers and sons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037336638
Author : Stephen Gilbert Brown
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791484963
The Gardens of Desire is at once a model of literary interpretation and a groundbreaking psychocritical reading of a literary masterpiece, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). Shedding new light on the origins of the creative impulse in general, and on the psychological origins of the Recherche in particular, the book illuminates the hidden associations between matricidal, suicidal, sadistic, masochistic, homoerotic, and creative impulses as manifested in Proust's work. The book moves beyond traditional Freudian readings of Proust to consider the theories of Otto Rank, Jacques Derrida, and others, and provides provocative readings of the "privileged moments" that comprise many of the work's "critical cruxes," as well as a thought-provoking rereading of the novel's ending. Both elegant and accessible, this book boldly explores the violence of desire as it relates not only to Proust's narrator, but also to Proustian criticism itself, with its own violent desire to appropriate the essence of Proust's masterpiece.
Author : Edward J. Hughes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191619472
Writing in 1927, Julien Benda described France as being afflicted by the twin scourges of narrow, class-based politics and rabid nationalism. He nevertheless identified Marcel Proust (who had died in 1922) as a writer who had refused to embrace the ideological narrowness of his age. Edward J. Hughes seeks to assess how Proust and his novel A la recherche du temps perdu might be understood in relation to issues of class and nation. A la recherche was produced in momentous times. As an extended textual construction, first conceived of in 1908 and the last tranche of which appeared posthumously almost two decades later, it was assembled against a backdrop of major historical events: pre-war tensions in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair and the Separation of Church and State (issues on which Proust had campaigned publicly); the First World War and the atmosphere of narrow nationalism and Germanophobia which the conflict generated; and the continuing polarization in class politics in the years after the First World War. These all find echoes in A la recherche and Hughes establishes how the exposure given to questions of class and nation needs to be understood historically. He demonstrates that the frequently entrenched positions of Proust's contemporaries at times square with the language and images of social conservativism to be found in A la recherche. Yet alongside that, Hughes unearths evidence that points to Proust as a free-floating, often playful, iconoclast and radical commentator who, as Theodor Adorno observed, resisted bourgeois compartmentalization.