Marcel Proust (Overlook Illustrated Lives) - Hardcover

Caws, Mary Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585674052 ISBN 13: 9781585674053

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Mary Ann Caws describes her short, lucid biography of Marcel Proust as visually inclined - a biography in which the illustrations are as important as the words. Chapters on facets of Prousts life and work are accompanied by over 100 images, including family photos, reproductions of paintings he admired, photographs of contemporary writers, artists, musicians and dancers, and portraits of the acquaintances and socialites who were the sources for his fictional characters.

About this title

Review:

"A beautifully designed new series ... scores of pictures with crisply related biography and commentary ... Look no further for the perfect literary stocking stuffer."

About the Author:

Mary Ann Caws is distinguished professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the City University of New York. She is the author of many books, including another title in the Overlook Illustrated Lives series, Virginia Woolf.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1585674052
• ISBN 13: 9781585674053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160