The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust - Adam A. Watt
The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust
Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust’s life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of A la recherche, which attends to its remarkable superstructure as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust’s finely stitched ...