A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'

by David Ellison

• ISBN13: 9780521720069
• ISBN10: 0521720060
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) is many things at once: a novel of education, a portrait of French society during the Third Republic, a masterful psychological analysis of love, a reflection on homosexuality, an essay in moral and aesthetic theory and, above all, one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

David Ellison is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Miami, Florida.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Chronology	p. xii
Introduction: At the threshold of Proust's novel	p. 1
Du Côté de. chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]	p. 28
A l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower]	p. 57
Le Côté de Guermantes [The Guermantes Way)	p. 86
Sodome et Gomorrhe [Sodom and Gomorrah]	p. 110
La Prisonnière [The Prisoner] and Albertine disparue [The Fugitive]	p. 136
Le Temps retrouvé [Finding Time Again]	p. 162
Notes	p. 186
Select bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 205
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