The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

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Label

The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

Statement of responsibility

Adam Watt

Creator

• Watt, Adam A., (Adam Andrew), 1979-

Subject

• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Cambridge introductions to literature

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

843/.912

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ2631.R63

LC item number

Z9817 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge introductions to literature