The Fugitive

The Fugitive
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 383
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ISBN-10 : 9780525505532
ISBN-13 : 0525505539
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fugitive by : Marcel Proust

The long-awaited penultimate volume--"the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth "The greatest literary work of the twentieth century." --The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper Peter Collier's acclaimed translation of The Fugitive introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The sixth and penultimate volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy. "Miss Albertine has left!" So begins The Fugitive, the second part of what is often referred to as "the Albertine cycle," or books five and six of In Search of Lost Time. As Marcel struggles to endure Albertine's departure and vanquish his loss, he ends up in an anguished search for the essential truth of the enigmatic fugitive, whose love affairs with other women provoke in him jealousy and a new understanding of sexuality. Eventually, he lets go of Albertine and begins to find himself, discovering his own long-lost inner sources of creativity. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Captive

The Captive
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Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages : 980
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ISBN-10 : 9780679424772
ISBN-13 : 0679424776
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Captive by : Marcel Proust

The narrator recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780307475602
ISBN-13 : 0307475603
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time by : Patrick Alexander

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust. At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as engaging and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust’s genius and appeal—he calls the work “outrageously bawdy and extremely funny”—and in his guide he makes it more accessible to the general reader through detailed plot summaries, historical and cultural background, a guide to the fifty most important characters, maps, family trees, illustrations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essential for readers and book groups currently reading Proust and who want help keeping track of the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader’s Guide is also a wonderful introduction for students and new readers and a memory-refresher for long-time fans.

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : 9798723516526
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (Illustrated) by : Marcel Proust

No library's complete without the classics! The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past," "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of the volume, the narrator tells of the excruciating romance of his country neighbor, Monsieur Swann. The narrator reverts to his childhood, where he begins a similarly hopeless infatuation with Swann's little daughter, Gilberte. More than this apparently fragmented narrative, however, is the importance of the themes of memory, time, and art that connect and interweave the man's memories. Considered to be one of the twentieth century's major novels, Proust ultimately portrays the volatility of human life in this sweeping contemplation of reality and time. Illustrated with book-end doodles about reading

Proust's Lesbianism

Proust's Lesbianism
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 0801435951
ISBN-13 : 9780801435959
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Proust's Lesbianism by : Elisabeth Ladenson

For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction--his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Traditional readings of the Recherche have dismissed Proust's "Gomorrah"--his term for women who love other women--as a veiled portrayal of the novelist's own homosexuality. More recently, "queer-positive" rereadings have viewed the novel's treatment of female sexuality as ancillary to its accounts of Sodom and its meditations on time and memory. Ladenson instead demonstrates the primacy of lesbianism to the novel, showing that Proust's lesbians are the only characters to achieve a plenitude of reciprocated desire. The example of Sodom, by contrast, is characterized by frustrated longing and self-loathing. She locates the work's paradigm of hermetic relations between women in the self-sufficient bond between the narrator's mother and grandmother. Ladenson traces Proust's depictions of male and female homosexuality from his early work onward, and contextualizes his account of lesbianism in late-nineteenth-century sexology and early twentieth-century thought. A vital contribution to the fields of queer theory and of French literature and culture, Ladenson's book marks a new stage in Proust studies and provides a fascinating chapter in the history of a literary masterpiece's reception.

A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'

A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780521895774
ISBN-13 : 0521895774
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' by : David Ellison

A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.

Monsieur Proust's Library

Monsieur Proust's Library
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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781590515679
ISBN-13 : 1590515676
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Monsieur Proust's Library by : Anka Muhlstein

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels. In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein, the author of Balzac’s Omelette, draws out these themes in Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search of Lost Time, but also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.

Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9780393078701
ISBN-13 : 0393078701
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time by : Roger Shattuck

"Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece, and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way, the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.

Reading in Proust's A la recherche

Reading in Proust's A la recherche
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 202
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199566174
ISBN-13 : 0199566178
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading in Proust's A la recherche by : Adam Watt

Adam Watt's critical study of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, focuses on the role of the acts of reading depicted in the seminal novel. Reading is shown to be a formative and often troubling force in the life of the novel's narrator.

The Honey Locust

The Honey Locust
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 1897151381
ISBN-13 : 9781897151389
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Honey Locust by : Jeffrey Round

How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans. Globe-trotting photojournalist Angela Thomas has spent all thirty-two years of her life dreaming of far-off places. Nothing that has happened to her thus far -- the dysfunction of her family, the failure of her marriage -- can convince her that "home" is where she belongs. Though she won't admit it, her job is as much an escape as it is a passion. Every foreign assignment is a chance to trade gnawing family conflicts in for situations that may kill her but won't break her heart. Everything changes when Angela is sent to cover the war in Yugoslavia. She has survived strife and destruction before, but this time is different; this time, the people around her refuse to remain at arm's length, filtered by a camera lens. Through the unexpected attachments she makes, Angela's eyes are finally opened to a view that casts her old life and her old problems in a completely different light.