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Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
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  • The My Reading series offers personal models of what it is like to care about particular authors and works, and to show their effect upon a reader's own thinking and development
  • A witty and refreshing book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust, from one of our foremost literary and cultural critics
  • Explores the birth of Proust as a novelist, what he teaches us about the mythology of beginnings and endings, about metaphor as a kind of rebellion, and about love as a permanent anxiety attack
  • Draws on the author's own experience of reading Proust to allow author and reader to meet and perhaps quarrel, perhaps agree, to go wherever their collaboration leads them

     

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust.
   
What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself writing about Proust's work as an event and about events in relation to that work itself. The event that created the figure we know as Proust did not take a whole lifetime, we can date it to within certain months, perhaps certain weeks, of a certain year, 1908. That was when Proust the interesting occasional writer and full-time socialite, turned into an ostensible hermit and a real novelist.
   
This short book says something about the event as a lifetime affair, and shows what the sudden change of 1908 looks like. It explores the work of Marcel Proust as an event in the world, something that happened to literature and culture and our understanding of history. This event has more aspects than we can count, but this book offers detailed critical snapshots of seven of them: the birth of Proust as a novelist; what he teaches us about the mythology of beginnings; about metaphor as a kind of rebellion; about love as a permanent anxiety attack; about the Dreyfus Affair; about the concept of justice; about the mythology of endings.

Index: 

Preface
1:Impossible Music
2:That Evening
3:Dreyfus Time
4:The Scenery of the Event
5:Profound Albertine
6:Proust's Law School
7:After the Ball

About the author: 

Michael Wood, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
    
Michael Wood received a B.A. an M.A. and a PhD at Cambridge, and then was a Fellow of St John's College for three years. After that he taught at Columbia University in New York for sixteen years, returning to England, after two years in Mexico, to teach at the University of Exeter. He went back to the USA in 1995 to take up a post at Princeton University.

Product details

ISBN : 9780192845825

Author: 
Michael Wood
Pages
144 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
142 x 223 mm
Pub date
May 2023
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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust