Proust, a Jewish Way

Antoine Compagnon brings to light the vanished world of Marcel Proust's first Jewish readers and shows how it can illuminate our reading of the great novelist today.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Ultima Verba
2. Menorah
3. A Pointless Question?
4. “The Same Degree of Heredity as Montaigne”
5. La Revue Juive
6. “The Style of the Rabbi”
7. “Making a Niche for Themselves in the French Bourgeoisie”
8. The Zohar or L’Astrée?
9. The End of the Postwar Era
10. The Baruch Tomb
11. Manuscripts Regained
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Antoine Compagnon is the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, professor emeritus at the Collège de France, and a member of the Académie française. He is the author of many books on subjects including Montaigne, Baudelaire, Proust, Colette, literary theory, and cultural history.

Jody Gladding is a poet who has translated dozens of works from French.

Summary

Antoine Compagnon brings to light the vanished world of Marcel Proust’s first Jewish readers and shows how it can illuminate our reading of the great novelist today.

Product details

• Authors: Antoine Compagnon, Antoine/ Gladding Compagnon, Compagnon Antoine
• Assisted by: Jody Gladding (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9780231211345
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21134-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary Criticism