Marcel Proust

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust that allows author and reader to meet and perhaps quarrel, perhaps agree, to go wherever their collaboration leads them, with language itself acting as a conduit.

Sommario

• Preface


• 1: Impossible Music


• 2: That Evening


• 3: Dreyfus Time


• 4: The Scenery of the Event


• 5: Profound Albertine


• 6: Proust's Law School


• 7: After the Ball

Info autore

Michael Wood received a B.A. an M.A. and a PhD at Cambridge, and then was a Fellow of St John's College for three years. After that he taught at Columbia University in New York for sixteen years, returning to England, after two years in Mexico, to teach at the University of Exeter. He went back to the USA in 1995 to take up a post at Princeton University.

Riassunto

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust that allows author and reader to meet and perhaps quarrel, perhaps agree, to go wherever their collaboration leads them, with language itself acting as a conduit.

Testo aggiuntivo

Michael Wood's book enjoys a certain freedom, offering a light-footed canter through a diverse range of subjects that interest Proustian scholars...His contribution to the answer is as well researched as it is readable, offering a refreshing take on how to read Proust today. It will be of interest to anyone wishing to explore why the author's work continues to hold our attention.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Wood, Michael (Professor Emeritus of English and C Wood
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.05.2023
• EAN: 9780192845825
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284582-5
• Pagine: 160
• Serie: My Reading
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers