Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time

SHATTUCK, Roger

ISBN 10: 0393049140 / ISBN 13: 9780393049145

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2000

About this Item

First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Literary critic, educator and Marcel Proust scholar Roger Shattuck presents an in-depth look at Proust's enduring classic series "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu," usually translated as "In Search of Lost Time" or as "Remembrance of Things Past." The author maintains that Proust should be ". . .read as carefully as a detective story, in which every detail becomes a clue to something else." With a black & white frontis image of Proust at an outdoor banquet of some sort. With a facsimile of Proust's corrections to "Du Côté de chez Swann" to endpapers. --- In brown and tan paper-covered boards with spine titling in copper foil. Volume wrapped in jacket with image of a book to cover. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Unclipped jacket ($26.95) also bright and newish.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiv, 290, [2] pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393049140
• ISBN 13: 9780393049145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

An illuminating work that serves as both an introduction to Proust--perhaps Europe's most enduring twentieth-century novelist--and a searching reinterpretation of his work. Since beginning his career, Roger Shattuck has been mesmerized by one writer. First came Proust's Binoculars, a short, brilliant study published in 1964. Then came Marcel Proust, commissioned by Frank Kermode for the Modern Masters series, which won the National Book Award in 1974. A series of essays, lectures, and reviews followed. Now, like Richard Ellmann, whose constant outpourings on Joyce resulted in his triumphant biography James Joyce, Roger Shattuck written a new and definitive work. Devoting special care to Proust's masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (traditionally translated as Remembrance of Things Past), Shattuck laments his subject's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, examines Proust's place in the path of aesthetic decadence blazed by Baudelaire and Wilde, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way, the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to Proust.

About the Author

Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.