Proust Among the Stars
by Malcolm Bowie
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The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works. This is a matchless close reading of a literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and a lesson in how to read the Great Books profitably and pleasurably. 'Read this excellent book' Stuart Jeffries, Guardian 'Very refreshing... a splendidly tough-minded and generous introduction' Gabriel Josipovici, Independent 'Brilliant' Peter Conrad, Observer 'A splendidly thought-filled show more book' Eric Griffiths, Evening Standard A book that recalls that Proust's novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the world's literature; and that its originality lies first in the quality of Proust's textual invention, page after page, line after line. Art, death, sex, politics, loss, guilt, morality -- all Proust's major themes are here in all their glory, but revealed close up. show lessTags
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Proust collected his ideas about the self, time, politics, art, sex, and death in his book Proust Among the Stars. Malcolm Bowie offers readers insights as startling as those provided by Proust's generous narrator, all while striking a balance between life and literature. No better introduction to Proust could be imagined: it brings readers back to the pleasures of the text rather than to the caprices of biography. It sends back incredibly shocking images of our planet while orbiting alongside Proust.
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- 1998
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- Marcel Proust
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 843.912 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 20th Century 1900-1945
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- PQ2631 .R63 .A77376 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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