Proust's Way
A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time
Published on 7. February 2011
320 pages
978-0-393-07870-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times
For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece, and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way, the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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978-0-393-07870-1 (9780393078701)
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Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.
Content
- Intro
- BY ROGER SHATTUCK
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Diagrams
- INTRODUCTION: A SENSE OF LIFE
- Biographical Résumé on Proust
- Note on Editions and Translations
- I THE WORK AND ITS AUTHOR
- Obstacles and Inducements
- The Life of an Enfant Nerveux
- An Overdetermined Universe
- II HOW TO READ A ROMAN-FLEUVE
- Practical Matters
- The Elements of the Story
- The Plot
- Verisimilitude and Homosexuality
- III THE COMIC VISION
- Four Scenes
- A Matter of Temperament: The Opening Stumble
- The Uses of the Comic
- IV PROUST'S COMPLAINT
- False Scents
- From Places to People: The "Infirmity in My Nature"
- Soul Error
- The Paradox of Consciousness
- V PROUST'S BINOCULARS: MEMORY AND RECOGNITION
- Optics and Vision
- Happiness and Memory
- Recognitions
- VI ART AND IDOLATRY
- Art
- Idolatry
- VII THE STRUCTURE OF SHEER LENGTH
- Finding a Form
- VI. THE SHAPE AND TRAJECTORY OF THE
- Lost and Found
- VIII CONTINUING DISPUTES
- Too Much of Proust?
- The Challenge of Translation
- Filming the Unfilmable
- Time and Space
- Intelligence versus Sensibility: Proust's Wager and "Experimental Faith"
- IX READING FOR YOUR LIFE
- CODA: Proust's "Mysterious Laws of Thought"
- APPENDIXES
- I. The Wonders of Optics
- II. Table of the Moments Bienheureux
- III. The Opening Sentence
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- About the Author
