01702cam a2200229 i 4500 101210t20112011enk b 001 0 eng 9780521516433 9780521734325 SDU PQ2631.R63 W344 C 2011 Watt, Adam A. 206188 The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust / Adam Watt. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 141 p. HKBU Library "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"-- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Criticism and interpretation. 199272 Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General 206190 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 107748 107748 0 0 lcc 0 PQ2631 R63 W344 C2011 0 CGB 279221 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-26 2 0 PQ2631.R63 W344 C 2011 1000374363 2025-08-26 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-26 GBE