The Proust Project
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374238324 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Aciman teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.For The Proust Project, editor André Aciman asked twenty-eight writers—among them Shirley Hazzard, Lydia Davis, Richard Howard, Alain de Botton, Diane Johnson, Edmund White, Geoffrey O'Brien, Wayne Koestenbaum, Susan Minot, Andrew Solomon, and Louis Auchincloss—to choose a favorite passage from In Search of Lost Time and introduce it in a brief essay.As gathered togethered here, along with the translated passages themselves (and a synopsis that guides the reader from one passage to the next), these essays form the perfect introduction to the greatest novel of the last century."Discovering Proust is like wandering through a totally unfamiliar land and finding it peopled with kindred spirits and sister souls and fellow countrymen They speak our language, our dialect, share our blind-spots, and are awkward in exactly the same way we are, just as their manner of lacing every access of sorrow with slapstick reminds us so much of how we do it when w
Stephen Fall said An entertaining glance at Proust. I really enjoyed this book, and I'm surprised that it hasn't had more attention. The editors asked a couple dozen writers and scholars (they somehow missed me and my splendid 'The 1An entertaining glance at Proust Stephen Fall I really enjoyed this book, and I'm surprised that it hasn't had more attention. The editors asked a couple dozen writers and scholars (they somehow missed me and my splendid 'The 14-Minute Marcel Proust') to select their favorite passages from A la recherche du temps perdu and comment on them. Many of course are predictable, and some of the comments are really just restatements of what Proust wrote, but overall the extended quotes are a wonderful refresher of this greatest of all novels, and the comments are a fascinating study of how differently Proust can affect different people. I am putting the book . -Minute Marcel Proust') to select their favorite passages from A la recherche du temps perdu and comment on them. Many of course are predictable, and some of the comments are really just restatements of what Proust wrote, but overall the extended quotes are a wonderful refresher of this greatest of all novels, and the comments are a fascinating study of how differently Proust can affect different people. I am putting the book . Entertaining and worthwhile formatter I enjoyed this book, which basically asks a bunch of writers, scholars, and miscellaneous people to choose their favorite passage from A la recherche du temps perdu and comment on it. A few of the choices are boringly obvious, and a few are rather weirdly analyzed, but overall it's a wonderful way to refresh one's knowledge of the greatest novel ever written. My only question: Why didn't they ask ME?. "Five Stars" according to Colpan Galperin. Yes, well done!Colpan
He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. André Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt (FSG, 1994) and False Papers (FSG, 2000). He teaches literature at Bard.
. In a more informative mode, Edmund White discusses Proust's apparent homophobia and sexual identity; and Richard Howard analyzes the "coiling elaboration" of a classic Proustian sentence. This title is full of intriguing moments of appreciation, ripe for sampling by seasoned Proustians, but not intended as an introduction to the great author. Reflections tend to be personal and autobiographical, a tone set by Aciman in his preface when he charmingly writes of how Proust invites us to " 'bookmark' our own past onto his." Almost all of the contributors attempt to define Proustian sensibility and to register its effects on the life of the mind. Olivier Bernier discusses how reading Proust helped hi