Proust Outdoors - Hardcover

Guss, Nathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611483123 ISBN 13: 9781611483123

Publisher: Bucknell University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Proust Outdoors will surprise anyone familiar with Marcel Proust, a writer associated with the cork-lined bedroom, the aristocratic salon, the interiority of memory, and, more recently, the figurative closet. The narrator uses figures of interior space to express literature's ability to recapture the past. However, his depictions of great works and other characters' theories convey art's power to open new horizons of meaning in vast, wild spaces such as alpine wilderness, the eastern steppe, or stormy seas.

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Review:

It is deeply gratifying to see how much can still be done with Proust, and in such exciting ways - ways that profoundly upset, and dramatically renew, our stale critical habits and convictions. Mr. Guss has certainly changed, if not my life itself, a crucial aspect of it: the way I read Proust.--Margaret E. Gray, Indiana University

About the Author:

Nathan Guss is assistant professor of French at Fort Lewis College, Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1611483123
• ISBN 13: 9781611483123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198