Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust: A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past - Softcover

Moss, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879232803 ISBN 13: 9780879232801

Publisher: David R Godine Pub, 1979

Synopsis

The seven novels that make up this complex work are analyzed in terms of their relation to the whole

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Review

Praise for Howard Moss and "The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust"

"["The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust"] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderfulwonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."John Updike

"Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics."George D. Painter

"A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader.""Publishers Weekly"
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Praise for Howard Moss and The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust

"[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful--wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."--John Updike

"Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics."--George D. Painter

"A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader."--Publishers Weekly

Praise for Howard Moss and The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust

"[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful--wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."--John Updike

"Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics."--George D. Painter

"A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader."--Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Howard Moss was poetry editor of the New Yorker from 1948 until his death in 1987. He won the National Book Award in 1972 for Selected Poems.

Edition details

• Publisher: David R Godine Pub
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879232803
• ISBN 13: 9780879232801
• Binding: Paperback