Patrick Alexander

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time (eBook, ePUB)

A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired-and entertaining-novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust. At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust's novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as engaging and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust's genius and appeal-he calls the work "outrageously bawdy and extremely funny"-and in his guide he makes it more accessible to the general reader through detailed plot summaries, historical and cultural background, a guide to the fifty most important characters, maps, family trees, illustrations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essential for readers and book groups currently reading Proust and who want help keeping track of the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader's Guide is also a wonderful introduction for students and new readers and a memory-refresher for long-time fans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307475602
• Artikelnr.: 38191769

Autorenporträt

Patrick Alexander moved to France in the early 1970s after graduating with a degree in literature from Sussex University in England. In France, he raised a family and embarked on a lifelong love affair with French literature. Throughout a professional career as an internatinal corporate executive traveling all over the world, Alexander's fascination with the works of Marcel Proust continued to grow. While a director at the Unviersity of Miami from 2001 to 2007, he organized a Proustian reading group, and he continues to be a regular contributor to an international Proustian forum. Alexander retired from the university in 2007 in order to work full-time on Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:  Proust and In Search of Lost Time
 
PART ONE : What Happens in Proust
Overview
Summary
Synopsis of In Search of Lost Time
 
Swann's Way
    Overture
    Combray
    Swann in Love
    Place-Names: The Name
Within a Budding Grove
    Madame Swann at Home
    Place-Names: The Place
The Guermantes Way
Cities of the Plain
The Captive
The Fugitive
Time Regained
 
PART TWO : Who's Who in Proust
List of Main Characters
Titles
Guide to Main Characters
 
PART THREE: The World of Proust
A Brief Life of Marcel Proust
Place-Names: The Places
Family
Education and Professional Life
Drugs and Sex
The Writer
Marcel Proust's Paris
Proust's Paris of the Belle Époque
Marcel Proust and French History
La Belle Époque
The Dreyfus Affair
 
Appendix
A. The Seven Novels
B. Page References
C. Page and Word Count
 
Suggestions for Further Reading
Internet Resources
Acknowledgments