Understanding Marcel Proust

Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition while also demonstrating its radical newness as a narrative.

About the author

Allen Thiher is a Curators' Professor of French Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Thiher's books include studies of Céline, Queneau, Kafka, Musil, and French cinema as well as books on literary theory and science and literature. He currently lives in retirement in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Summary

Provies an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing works both published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition while also demonstrating its radical newness as a narrative.

Product details

• Authors: Allen Thiher
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2013
• EAN: 9781611172553
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-255-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Understanding Modern European; Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature; Understanding Modern European; Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies