Proust Among the Stars: How to Read Him, Why Read Him? Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Proust Among the Stars: How to Read Him, Why Read Him? Book

For many, Proust is the supreme European writer of the twentieth century. This book tackles his achievement head-on. Art, death, sex, politics, loss, guilt, morality -Proust´s major themes are revealed and explained here. Proust Among the Stars is a matchless close reading of Remembrance of Things Past and a lesson in how to read the great books profitably and pleasurably. Malcolm Bowie asserts that Proust´s novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the world´s literature; and that its originality lies first in the quality of Proust´s textual invention, page after page, line after line. Proust´s world constantly shimmers with a sense of multiple possibilities and is at the same time infused with the urge to order, obsessively to organize. Bowie examines how Proust … read more...
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