100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one
of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can
be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time
readers and veterans alike to view the novel in a new way. Marcel
Proust (1871-1922) was arguably France's best-known literary
writer. He was the author of stories, essays, translations, and a
3,000-page novel, In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). This book is a
brief guide to Proust's magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites
the reader to view the novel as a single quest-a quest for purpose,
enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging- through the
novel's fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex
desire, knowledge, self-understanding, self-fashioning, and the
unconscious mind. Landy also shows why the questions Proust raises
are important and exciting for all of us: how we can feel at home
in the world; how we can find genuine connection with other human
beings; how we can find enchantment in a world without God; how art
can transform our lives; whether an artist's life can shed light on
their work; what we can know about the world, other people, and
ourselves; when not knowing is better than knowing; how sexual
orientation affects questions of connection and identity; who we
are, deep down; what memory tells us about our inner world; why it
might be good to think of our life as a story; how we can feel like
a single, unified person when we are torn apart by change and
competing desires. Finally, Landy suggests why it's worthwhile to
read the novel itself-how the long, difficult, but joyous
experience of making it through 3,000 pages of prose can be
transformative for our minds and souls.
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