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Marcel Proust - Carter, William C. - Yale University Press
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Feb 04, 2002
992 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
47 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300094008
ISBN-10: 0300094000
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Marcel ProustA Life
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Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2000 by Choice Magazine Named a Notable Book for 2000 by the New York Times Book Review Winner of the 2000 Book of the Year Award in the Biography/Memoir category, given by ForeWord Magazine
This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. Based on a host of recently available letters, memoirs, and manuscripts, it sheds new light on Proust’s character, his development as an artist, and his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (long known in English as Remembrance of Things Past). The biography also sets Proust’s life in the decadent artistic and social context of the French fin de siècle and the years leading up to World War I.
The glittering Parisian world of which Proust was a part was also home to such luminaries as Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, and André Gide. William C. Carter brings this vibrant social world to life while he explores the inner world of Proust’s intellectual and artistic development, as well as his most intimate personal experience. Carter examines Proust’s passionate attachment to his mother, his deep love for the scenes of his youth, his flirtation with Parisian high society, his complicated sexual desires, and his irrevocable commitment to literary truth—and shows how all of these played out in the making of his great novel. In the book’s abundance of detail, its wealth of anecdotes, quoted letters, and recovered conversations—many of them appearing in English for the first time—Proust comes alive as never before.
William C. Carter, professor of French at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the author of The Proustian Quest and the coproducer of the documentary film Marcel Proust: A Writer’s Life.
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