Marcel Proust
by:
Edmund White (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9782762123173 (2762123178)
Publish date: March 21st 2002
Publisher: Fides
Pages no: 185
Edition language: French
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Literary Fiction,
Biography Memoir,
France,
French Literature,
Glbt,
Gay
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.― Marcel Proust Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia White calls Proust the most influential...
A warm up before deciding to read Proust's magnum opus. Which is rather silly since I usually just jump into a book, regardless of any knowledge on the book's author or background. In fact I realized that those books where I think a lot before starting usually the ones that ends up unread. Just like...
Very nice quick (and very, very brief) introduction to Proust - esp. meant for those (like self) who know nothing.
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