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Marcel Proust (Hardcover)
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Marcel Proust (Hardcover)
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A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading
Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work,
where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood
found himself writing about Proust's work as an event and about
events in relation to that work itself. The event that created the
figure we know as Proust did not take a whole lifetime, we can date
it to within certain months, perhaps certain weeks, of a certain
year, 1908. That was when Proust the interesting occasional writer
and full-time socialite, turned into an ostensible hermit and a
real novelist. This short book says something about the event as a
lifetime affair, and shows what the sudden change of 1908 looks
like. It explores the work of Marcel Proust as an event in the
world, something that happened to literature and culture and our
understanding of history. This event has more aspects than we can
count, but this book offers detailed critical snapshots of seven of
them: the birth of Proust as a novelist; what he teaches us about
the mythology of beginnings; about metaphor as a kind of rebellion;
about love as a permanent anxiety attack; about the Dreyfus Affair;
about the concept of justice; about the mythology of endings.
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