A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.
For those currently reading Proust, this book will guide them through the complexities of the plot and many different characters.
This Reader's Guide analyses each volume of the 'Recherche' in order and in detail.
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 ...
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 Marcel Proust William C. Carter. in translation is the double entendre of “temps perdu” as “wasted” or “lost” time. In his book on translation, Is That a Fish in Your Ear: Translation and the Meaning ...
Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity—that of the novel’s narrator ...
Identifies characters, persons, places, and themes found in Marcel Proust's masterpiece
In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein, the author of Balzac’s Omelette, draws out these themes in Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search of ...
The narrator recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice
Paintings in Proust is a companion guide to a monumental twentieth century work of art. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, one of the most expansive literary creations ever...
For many, Proust is the supreme European writer of the twentieth century. This book tackles his achievement head-on. Art, death, sex, politics, loss, guilt, morality -- Proust's major themes are revealed and explained here.