Marcel Proust: A Life, with a New Preface by the Author
Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of À la recherche du temps perdu one hundred years ago, Marcel Proust portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. “An impeccably researched and...
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Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of À la recherche du temps perdu one hundred years ago, Marcel Proust portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. “An impeccably researched and well-paced narrative that brings vividly and credibly to life not only the writer himself but also the changing world he knew.”—Roger Pearson, New York Times Book Review “William C. Carter is Proust’s definitive biographer.”—Harold Bloom Named a Notable Book of 2000 by the New York Times Book Review
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300191790 (0300191790)
ASIN: 300191790
Publish date: April 16th 2013
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 1000
Edition language: English
A la Recherche de Proust: Une vie retrouvée.Whenever one mentions the reading a biography of a famous artist or writer or composer, a debate always springs up. Why bother with the life of this creator, why not just concentrate on his/her production? When this door-stopper of a tome arrived on the ...