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Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic
Christopher Prendergast
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Description for Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs, Christopher Prendergast argues the case differently, with the grain, on the basis that Proust himself was ... Read more
Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs, Christopher Prendergast argues the case differently, with the grain, on the basis that Proust himself was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691155203
SKU
V9780691155203
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About Christopher Prendergast
Christopher Prendergast is professor emeritus of French at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of King's College and the British Academy. He is the general editor of the Penguin translation of In Search of Lost Time.
Reviews for Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic
Winner of the 2015 R. Gapper Prize, Society for French Studies "[A] deliciously rich interrogation of the French novelist's oeuvre... Prendergast has baked a millefeuille of a book here, crisp, rich and multilayered. Read it for its exposition of jokes, of magic, enchantment and spectrality, of the Proustian body (a place 'where we live but not where we are at ... Read more