Remembrance of Things Past: v. 2/2 (World Literature)
by:
Marcel Proust (author)
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of...
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Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781840221473 (184022147X)
Publish date: September 10th 2006
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Edition language: English
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