Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Cambridge Introduction To Marcel Proust
Author(s): Watt Adam (Royal Holloway University Of London)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521734325
Pages: 154 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 4/7/2011
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers