The Proust Project - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374238324 ISBN 13: 9780374238322

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1788

Synopsis

"Discovering Proust is like wandering through a totally unfamiliar land and finding it peopled with kindred spirits and sister souls and fellow countrymen . . . They speak our language, our dialect, share our blind-spots and are awkward in exactly the same way we are, just as their manner of lacing every access of sorrow with slapstick reminds us so much of how we do it when we are sad and wish to hide it, that surely we are not alone and not as strange as we feared we were. And here lies the paradox. So long as a writer tells us what he and only he can see, then surely he speaks our language." --from the preface by André Aciman

For The Proust Project, editor André Aciman asked twenty-eight writers--Shirley Hazzard, Lydia Davis, Richard Howard, Alain de Botton, Diane Johnson, Edmund White, and others--to choose a favorite passage from In Search of Lost Time and introduce it in a brief essay. Gathered together, along with the passages themselves (and a synopsis that guides the reader from one passage to the next), these essays form the perfect introduction to the greatest novel of the last century, and the perfect gift for any Proustian.

FSG will co-publish The Proust Project in a deluxe edition with Turtle Point Press, Books & Co., and Helen Marx Books.

About this title

About the Authors

André Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt (FSG, 1994) and False Papers (FSG, 2000). He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He teaches literature at Bard.

André Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt (FSG, 1994) and False Papers (FSG, 2000). He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He teaches literature at Bard.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1788
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374238324
• ISBN 13: 9780374238322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 221