World of Proust

Name: World of Proust
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ISBN: 9780262524261

ISBN-10: 0262524260

ISBN-13: 9780262524261

Edition: 2004

Authors: Anne-Marie Bernard, Susan Wise, Pierre-Jean Remy, Paul Nadar

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Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was one of the great geniuses of modern literature. Born in Auteil to wealthy bourgeois parents, he suffered delicate health as a child. During his high school years, he began to frequent salons such as that of Madame Arman, a friend of Anatole France. Troubled by asthma and neuroses, as well as by the deaths of his parents, Proust increasingly withdrew from the outer world and after 1907 lived mainly in a cork-lined room, working at night on his monumental novel A la recherche du temps perdu(Remembrance of Things Past). The World of Proust, as seen by Paul Nadaroffers an intimate stroll through the society on which Proust's novel is based. The heart of the book…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



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