In search of Proust
Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
(Eric Karpeles)
I wish I'd had this handsome book on the bedside table while reading
the Enright translations last winter! On the other hand,
it's a pleasant way to review the book from another perspective.
(Proust's first volume seems to be especially painter-rich, while
The Fugitive looks to be especially thin.)
Definitely a volume to add to your shelf of Proustiana.
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Marcel Proust: A Life
(Jean-Yves Tadie)
Proustian in its size (the paperback weighs in at 2.5 pounds) and often
in its prose, and requiring a Proustian commitment of time, this is
without question the biography. I recommend it to anyone who
has read and enjoyed the novel, or who like me is re-reading it.
Especially after about page 500, it also serves as a field guide to
In Search of Lost Time. Reading will go faster if you ignore
most of the footnotes!
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Marcel Proust: A Biography
(Roger Hayman)
This is a splendid piece of work, enjoyable as the biography of a
genius even if you're not about to read the novel! Now out of print.
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Marcel Proust
(Edmund White)
Professor White's neat little biography contains just about everything
the casual reader would want to know about the writer, his loves, and his
writings. This is the book to read before you attempt Swann's
Way. Also available as a
Kindle e-book.
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Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time
(Roger Shattuck)
Lots of good stuff here, if you're resolute enough to hack through the
academic prose and scattergun organization. (It appears to be a
pastiche—to use one of Prof. Shattuck's favorite words—of
his previously published writings on Proust.)
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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the
Remembrance of Things Past (Patrick Alexander)
Unfortunately keyed to the obsolescent 1980s Vintage edition, this
is nevertheless the excellent "field guide" that Mr. Shattuck hoped
to produce. Also available as a
Kindle e-book.
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