Joshua Landy

Marcel Proust (eBook, PDF)

A Very Short Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was arguably France's best-known literary writer. He wrote stories, essays, translations, and a 3,000-page novel, In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). This book is a brief guide to Proust's magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites the reader to view the novel as a single quest--a quest for purpose, enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging--through the novel's fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex desire, knowledge, self-understanding, self-fashioning, and the unconscious mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197586563
• Artikelnr.: 72278746

Autorenporträt

Joshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he co-directs the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature and co-hosts the nationally syndicated public radio program "Philosophy Talk." His books include Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (Oxford, 2004), How to Do Things With Fictions (Oxford, 2012), and (as coeditor) The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Preface
1. Art and life
2. Plot and character
3. Memories and impressions
4. Love and sex
5. Knowledge and ignorance
6. Inclusion and exclusion
7. Art and artists
8. Intellect and intuition
9. True self and total self
10. Why a novel?
A postscript for diehard proust fans: does the narrator write in search of lost time?
References
Further reading
Index