01595cam a2200193 i 4500008004100000020001800041020001800059040000800077050002800085100001800113245006200131260006300193300001100256505001700267520097900284600006201263600003201325650004401357101210t20112011enk      b    001 0 eng    a9780521516433  a9780521734325  aSDU00aPQ2631.R63bW344 C 20111 aWatt, Adam A.14aThe Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust /cAdam Watt.  aCambridge ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2011  a141 p.8 aHKBU Library  a"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"--10aProust, Marcel,d1871-1922xCriticism and interpretation.10aProust, Marcel,d1871-1922. 7aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / General