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Paperback. Adam Watt's biography considers Proust's early years of personal and aesthetic experiment, the growth of his masterwork A la recherche du temps perdu and his personal decline due to ill-health. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 black and white. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), his seven-volume magnum opus. He died when only half was in print, unable to see it become one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. Over eighty years later, the work still garners extraordinary levels of critical attention, and Proust's habits, health, and sexual preferences keep commentators and fans occupied to this day. In this concise biography, Adam Watt explores the life of a writer whose every experience was stored, dissected and redeployed within a vast fictional ... Read more
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), his seven-volume magnum opus. He died when only half was in print, unable to see it become one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. Over eighty years later, the work still garners extraordinary levels of critical attention, and Proust's habits, health, and sexual preferences keep commentators and fans occupied to this day. In this concise biography, Adam Watt explores the life of a writer whose every experience was stored, dissected and redeployed within a vast fictional ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Critical Lives
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780230948
SKU
V9781780230948
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Ref
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About Adam A Watt
Adam Watt is Associate Professor of French at the University of Exeter. He is a member of the 'Equipe Proust' at the item/ens, Paris. His previous books include Reading in Proust's A la recherche: 'le delire de la lecture' (2009) and The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (2011).
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