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Proust's Way : A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time

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For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece, and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way, the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780393321807
  • ISBN-10: 0393321800
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: August 2001
  • Dimensions: 8.28 x 5.56 x 0.81 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.62 pounds
  • Page Count: 318

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