Description: Further DetailsTitle: Living and Dying with Marcel ProustCondition: NewEAN: 9781787703513ISBN: 9781787703513Publisher: Europa CompassFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/13/2022Description: A LIFETIME'S READING OF PROUST'S MASTERPIECE “A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity.”—Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster “Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast.”—Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, A la recherche du temps perdu belongs in the tradition of the Initiation Story, the journey it describes combining elements drawn from the earlier narratives of great expectations and lost illusions, while recasting them in ways that are distinctively Proust’s. On the year that marks the centenary of Marcel Proust's death, the eminent literary scholar, Christopher Prendergast, traces that journey as it unfolds on an arc defined by the polarity of his title, living and dying. His book offers a chapter by chapter exploration of the rich sensory and impressionistic tapestry of a lived world, woven by the pulse of desire, the hauntings of memory and an ever alert responsiveness to tastes, perfumes, sounds, and colours. It also traces the construction of a unique architecture of narrative time and a corresponding mode of story-telling, marked by all manner of loops, swerves, detours, regressions and returns, from the macro level of the novel’s plot to the micro level of the famously elaborate Proustian sentence. The lives of his characters, both major and minor, are shown as criss-crossing and converging in ways that often take the reader by surprise, before descending the arc on an irreversible trajectory of decline, as the body starts to fail and the grave beckons. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 135mmAuthor: Christopher PrendergastGenre: BiographyRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Publication Name: Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Title: Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
EAN: 9781787703513
ISBN: 9781787703513
Publisher: Europa Compass
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 01/13/2022
Release Year: 2022
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 135mm
Author: Christopher Prendergast
Genre: Biography
