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9780300108125

Proust in Love

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300108125

  • ISBN10:

    0300108125

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2006-05-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

The acclaimed Proust biographer William C. Carter portrays Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of Proust in love, Carter also shows how the author's experiences became major themes in his novel In Search of Lost Time. Carter discusses Proust's adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought after the journalist Jean Lorrain alluded to his homosexuality in print, his flirtations with respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with young men of the servant class. With new revelations about Proust's love life and a gallery of photographs, the book provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust's gay Paris.

Author Biography

William C. Carter is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Abbreviations of Titles of Proust's Works xiii
ONE Promiscuous Proust 1(16)
TWO Mighty Hermaphrodite 17(14)
THREE My Heart Beats Only for You 31(16)
FOUR Jalousie 47(22)
FIVE A Nun of Speed 69(10)
SIX Where Fair Strangers Abound 79(33)
SEVEN Lovesick 112(11)
EIGHT Grieving and Forgetting 123(16)
NINE The Night Prowler 139(20)
TEN The Boys from the Rite 159(25)
ELEVEN Love Is Divine 184(21)
Notes 205(40)
Index 245

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