Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN :
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN :
Author : William C. Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300191790
Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, this title portrays in abundant detail the life and times of literary voices of the twentieth century.
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Cynthia J. Gamble
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN : 9781883479367
Author : Gian Balsamo
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611177375
This study explores the surprising relationship between Proust’s creative genius, his financial extravagance, and the steady hand that kept him afloat. What Marcel Proust wanted from life most of all was unconditional requited love, and the way he went after it—smothering the objects of his affection with gifts—cost him a fortune. To pay for such extravagance, he engaged in daring speculations on the stock exchange. The task of his cousin and financial adviser, Lionel Hauser, was to make sure these speculations would not go sour. In Proust and His Banker, Gian Balsamo examines this vital, complex relationship and reveals that the author’s liberal squandering of money provided the grist for many of the fictional characters and dramatic events he wrote about. Focusing on hundreds of letters between Proust and Hauser among other archival and primary sources, Balsamo provides a fascinating window into the writer’s creative process, his financial activities, and the surprising relationship between the two. Successes and failures alike provided material for Proust’s fiction, whether from the purchase of an airplane for the object of his affections or the investigation of a deceased love’s intimate background. Over the course of their fifteen-year collaboration, the banker saw Proust squander three-fifths of his wealth. To Hauser the writer was a virtuoso in resource mismanagement. Nonetheless, Balsamo shows, we owe it to the altruism of this generous relative, who never thought twice about sacrificing his own time and resources to Proust, that In Search of Lost Time was ever completed.
Author : Michael Sprinker
Publisher : Verso
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781859841884
This departure from the norm reveals a side to Proust that was capable of observing the class struggle in the Third Republic, a possibility that the author discovered in his studying and interpretation of A la recherche du temps perdu.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231136153
Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a unique pedagogical experiment: he combined teaching and writing to "simulate" the trial of novel-writing, exploring every step of the creative process along the way. Barthes's lectures move from the desire to write to the actual decision making, planning, and material act of producing a novel. He meets the difficulty of transitioning from short, concise notations (exemplified by his favorite literary form, haiku) to longer, uninterrupted flows of narrative, and he encounters a number of setbacks. Barthes takes solace in a diverse group of writers, including Dante, whose La Vita Nuova was similarly inspired by the death of a loved one, and he turns to classical philosophy, Taoism, and the works of François-René Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust. This book uniquely includes eight elliptical plans for Barthes's unwritten novel, which he titled Vita Nova, and lecture notes that sketch the critic's views on photography. Following on The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977-1978) and a third forthcoming collection of Barthes lectures, this volume provides an intensely personal account of the labor and love of writing.
Author : Katherine Elkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Philosophy in literature
ISBN : 0190921579
"Unlike most fiction writers, Proust was trained in philosophy. In fact, he even considered writing a philosophical treatise instead of the novel we know so well. This hesitation about what form his writing should take still haunts his final choice of a novel, which is both philosophical, and yet, not philosophy. Take your pick of philosophers, from Plato to Nietzsche, and you can easily find an essay or even a book arguing that this particular philosopher most applies to Proust. But as one plunges into the narrative that he finally wrote, one is struck by the fact that In Search of Lost Time feels nothing like what we often call a philosophical novel, or even, a novel of ideas. Instead, philosophical reflection lies in the shadows of his fictional world, a sort of parallel life that can be found in the underweave"--
Author : Douglas W. Alden
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1994-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780945636687
This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
Author : Joyce Block Lazarus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9004344160
Geneviève Straus: a Parisian Life is the first biography in English of Geneviève Straus (1849-1926), a Parisian salon hostess and political activist. Joyce Block Lazarus explores myths surrounding Straus and offers an account of her life and accomplishments. Making use of historical materials, including previously unpublished letters, Lazarus shows that Straus was a female intellectual during an era when women were non-citizens. Scholars have well documented the Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906), but have overlooked archival documents which spotlight Straus’s role as a political activist in the affair. In Geneviève Straus: a Parisian Life, Lazarus highlights Straus’s thirty-four-year friendship with Marcel Proust and examines her influence on Proust’s novel, In Search of Lost Time, finding echoes of Straus and her family in his masterpiece.