The Strange M. Proust (Legenda Main) - Hardcover

Benhaim, Andre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190598197X ISBN 13: 9781905981977

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of "A la Recherche du Temps perdu" - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary miniatures, his orderly structure where every law is subverted, his chronology where time can be undone and his geography where places can superimpose: in these, and many other ways, Proust continues to astonish even readers who have engaged with him for their entire careers.In this book, arising from the Princeton symposium of 2006, major critics come together to offer provocative readings of a work which is at the same time classical and unusual, French and foreign, familiar and strange. The book is dedicated to the memory of Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007), whose keynote address was one of his last major lectures. The other contributors include David Ellison, Anne Simon, Eugene Nicole, Joseph Brami, Raymonde Coudert, Christie McDonald, Michael Wood and Antoine Compagnon.

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edited by Andre Benhaim

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 190598197X
• ISBN 13: 9781905981977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152