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040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aPQ2631.R63
_bW344 C 2011
100 1 _aWatt, Adam A.
_9206188
245 1 4 _aThe Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust /
_cAdam Watt.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011
300 _a141 p.
505 8 _aHKBU Library
520 _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"--
600 1 0 _aProust, Marcel,
_d1871-1922
_xCriticism and interpretation.
_9199272
600 1 0 _aProust, Marcel,
_d1871-1922.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
_9206190
900 _a = C.1 SDU
942 _cGBE
_2lcc
999 _c107748
_d107748