An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one
of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's
endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by
the life but to show how different events, different emotional
upheavals, fired Proust's imagination and, albeit sometimes
completely transformed, appeared in his work. The result is a very
subtle, thought-provoking book."-Anka Muhlstein, author of Balzac's
Omelette and Monsieur Proust's Library Marcel Proust came into his
own as a novelist comparatively late in life, yet only Shakespeare,
Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky were his equals when it
came to creating characters as memorably human. As biographer
Benjamin Taylor suggests, Proust was a literary lightweight before
writing his multivolume masterwork In Search of Lost Time, but
following a series of momentous historical and personal events, he
became-against all expectations-one of the greatest writers of his,
and indeed any, era. This insightful, beautifully written biography
examines Proust's artistic struggles-the "search" of the
subtitle-and stunning metamorphosis in the context of his times.
Taylor provides an in-depth study of the author's life while
exploring how Proust's personal correspondence and published works
were greatly informed by his mother's Judaism, his homosexuality,
and such dramatic events as the Dreyfus Affair and, above all,
World War I. As Taylor writes in his prologue, "Proust's Search is
the most encyclopedic of novels, encompassing the essentials of
human nature. . . . His account, running from the early years of
the Third Republic to the aftermath of World War I, becomes the
inclusive story of all lives, a colossal mimesis. To read the
entire Search is to find oneself transfigured and victorious at
journey's end, at home in time and in eternity too."
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