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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818907303321

Autore

Watt Adam A (Adam Andrew), <1979->

Titolo

The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust / / Adam Watt [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-21588-9

1-139-06280-8

1-283-11082-2

9786613110824

1-139-07497-0

0-511-97382-9

1-139-07723-6

1-139-07950-6

1-139-06920-9

1-139-08178-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 141 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge introductions to literature

Classificazione

LIT004130

Disciplina

843/.912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Early works and late essays; 4. In Search of Lost Time; 5. Proust criticism; Epilogue: Proustian afterlives; Further reading.

Sommario/riassunto

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.