Marcel Proust: A Life (Henry McBride series in modernism & modernity) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Marcel Proust: A Life (Henry McBride series in modernism & modernity) Book

This is the first comprehensive biography of Marcel Proust since George Painter's biography was published in 1959. Like Proust's masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu, the biography is structured as the story of the writer's slow and at times excruciatingly painful search for a vocation. Proust emerges from Carter's narrative as an extremely complicated, difficult and brilliant man. Carter goes into some detail to elucidate Proust's curious sexual identity - from his intense and often histrionic relationships with his male friends to his quasi-pathological attachment to his mother to the bizarre sexual fetishes that emerged in his visits to Parisian brothels. But the biography focuses firmly on Proust's development as an artist - the distracted years as a dilettantish member of Parisian high-society, the dabbling in journalism and translation and, finally, his emergence as one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. This is a full, rich, deep, and all encompassing biography of one of the great writers in the world. It is also an elucidating cultural history of the times in which he lived.Read More

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  • 0300081456
  • 9780300081459
  • WC Carter
  • 3 April 2000
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 1024
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