The Proustian Quest
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Author |
: William Carter |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1994-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814715024 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814715028 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Proustian Quest by : William Carter
"An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the first line of Proust scholars in the country." —Roger Shattuck,Boston University The Proustian Quest is the first full-length study that explores the influence of social change on Proust's vision. In Remembrance of Things Past, Proust describes how the machines of transportation and communication transformed fashion, social mores, time-space perception, and the understanding of the laws of nature. Concentrating on the motif of speed, Carter establishes the centrality of the modern world to the novel's main themes and produces a far- reaching synthesis that demonstrates the work's profound structural unity.
Author |
: André Maurois |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 1950 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015000788092 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proust by : André Maurois
Author |
: André Maurois |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1950 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:930485607 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Quest for Proust by : André Maurois
Author |
: William C. Carter |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 998 |
Release |
: 2013-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300191790 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300191790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Marcel Proust by : William C. Carter
Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, this title portrays in abundant detail the life and times of literary voices of the twentieth century.
Author |
: John E. Moon |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 93 |
Release |
: 1953 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:56171337 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spiritual Quest of Marcel Proust by : John E. Moon
Author |
: Vincent Descombes |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804720002 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804720007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proust by : Vincent Descombes
Through the voice of the narrator of Remembrance of Things Past, Proust observes of the painter Elstir that the paintings are bolder than the artist; Elstir the painter is bolder than Elstir the theorist. This book applies the same distinction Proust; the Proustian novel is bolder than Proust the theorist. By this the author means that the novel is philosophically bolder, that it pursues further the task Proust identifies as the writer's work: to explain life, to elucidate what has been lived in obscurity and confusion. In this, the novelist and the philosopher share a common goal: to clarify the obscure in order to arrive at the truth. It follows that Proust's real philosophy of the novel is to be found not in the speculative passages of Remembrance, which merely echo the philosophical commonplaces of his time, but in the truly novelistic or narrative portions of his text. In Against Sainte-Beuve, Proust sets forth his ideas about literature in the form of a critique of the method of Sainte-Beuve. Scholars who have studied Proust's notebooks describe the way in which this essay was taken over by bits of narrative originally intended as illustration supporting its theses. The philosophical portions of Remembrance were not added to the narrative as an afterthought, designed to bring out its meaning. What happened was the reverse: the novel was born of a desire to illustrate the propositions of the essay. Why then should we not find the novel more philosophically advanced than the essay? Reversing the usual order followed by literary critics, the author interprets the novel as an elucidation, and not as a simple transposition, of the essay. The book is not only a general interpretation of Proust's novel and its construction; it includes detailed discussions of such topics as literature and philosophy, the nature of the literary genres, the poetics of the novel, the definition of art, modernity and postmodernity, and the sociology of literature.
Author |
: Graydon Carter |
Publisher |
: Rodale Books |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781605295954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1605295957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire by : Graydon Carter
An intimate look into the inner lives of our most prominent cultural figures— pulled from the celebrated Proust Questionnaire page in Vanity Fair magazine. The probing set of questions originated as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by contemporaries of Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that an individual's answers reveal his true nature. Illustrated by Risko, Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire Edited by Graydon Carter and Illustrated by Risko, brings together the responses of 101 of the most vibrant personalities of our time, from Bette Midler and Lauren Bacall to Salman Rushdie and Norman Mailer, from Martin Scorsese and Shirley MacLaine to Aretha Franklin and Eric Clapton. Candid, hilarious, and endlessly fascinating,
Author |
: Andre.́ Maurois |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1950 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:503859002 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Quest for Marcel Proust by : Andre.́ Maurois
Author |
: Gian Balsamo |
Publisher |
: Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2017-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611177374 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611177375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proust & His Banker by : Gian Balsamo
This study explores the surprising relationship between Proust’s creative genius, his financial extravagance, and the steady hand that kept him afloat. What Marcel Proust wanted from life most of all was unconditional requited love, and the way he went after it—smothering the objects of his affection with gifts—cost him a fortune. To pay for such extravagance, he engaged in daring speculations on the stock exchange. The task of his cousin and financial adviser, Lionel Hauser, was to make sure these speculations would not go sour. In Proust and His Banker, Gian Balsamo examines this vital, complex relationship and reveals that the author’s liberal squandering of money provided the grist for many of the fictional characters and dramatic events he wrote about. Focusing on hundreds of letters between Proust and Hauser among other archival and primary sources, Balsamo provides a fascinating window into the writer’s creative process, his financial activities, and the surprising relationship between the two. Successes and failures alike provided material for Proust’s fiction, whether from the purchase of an airplane for the object of his affections or the investigation of a deceased love’s intimate background. Over the course of their fifteen-year collaboration, the banker saw Proust squander three-fifths of his wealth. To Hauser the writer was a virtuoso in resource mismanagement. Nonetheless, Balsamo shows, we owe it to the altruism of this generous relative, who never thought twice about sacrificing his own time and resources to Proust, that In Search of Lost Time was ever completed.
Author |
: André Maurois |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 1962 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:456042262 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Quest for Proust by : André Maurois