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Proust: The Search

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Description for Proust: The Search Paperback. Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 284.
An arresting study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century
 
“Taylor’s endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust’s imagination and, albeit sometimes completely transformed, appeared in his work. The result is a very subtle, thought-provoking book.”—Anka Muhlstein, author of Balzac’s Omelette and Monsieur Proust’s Library
 
Marcel Proust came into his own as a novelist comparatively late in life, yet only Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Jewish Lives
Condition
New
Weight
284g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300224283
SKU
V9780300224283
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Benjamin Taylor
Benjamin Taylor is a founding member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty at the New School and the author or editor of six previous books, including The Book of Getting Even and Saul Bellow: Letters.

Reviews for Proust: The Search
“Benjamin Taylor’s Proust: The Search is a marvel of brief biography, reanimating the hapless, almost Chaplinesque figure who by all logic should never have accomplished what he did. With a kind of worldly tenderness, Taylor shows Proust’s work accruing amid personal pratfalls, French anti-Semitism and the catastrophe of World War I.”—Thomas Mallon, New York Times Book Review “This engaging ... Read more

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