Name: Proust on art and Literature
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Author: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780786704545

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marcel Proust

Translated by

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Introduction by

Terence Kilmartin

Publisher

Da Capo Press

Year

1997

Language

English

Pages

420

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.7x14x2.8 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

0786704543

ISBN13

9780786704545

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "Proust on art and Literature "

Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past Beginning with the remarkable essay Contre Saint-Beuve, this surprising and stimulating critical collection presents Proust's views on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting and painters, and on such literary masters of the nineteenth century as Tolstoy, Goethe, and Stendhal.The whole volume is an impassioned plea by Proust himself . . . it will enlighten readers of Remembrance of Things Past.--New York Times Book Review

Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust (Auteuil, Paris, 1871 – Paris, 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is famous for his monumental work In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), a series of seven volumes published between 1913 and 1927, which explore memory, art, and French society of his time. Proust won the prestigious Goncourt Prize in 1919 for the second volume of the saga, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. His innovative use of involuntary memory and the stream of consciousness technique deeply marked modern literature. Despite a life marked by illness and isolation, his work is today a universal reference and has been translated into numerous languages.

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