The Strange M. Proust

ISBN-13: 9781905981977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 152 str.

Andre Benhaim

Opis

The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of A la Recherche du Temps perdu - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary miniatures, his orderly structure where every law is subverted, his chronology where time can be undone and his geography where places can superimpose: in these, and many other ways, Proust continues to astonish even readers who have engaged with him for their entire careers. In this book, arising from the Princeton symposium of 2006, major critics come together to offer provocative readings of a work which is at the same time classical and unusual, French and foreign, familiar and strange. The book is dedicated to the memory of Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007), whose keynote address was one of his last major lectures. Other contributors include David Ellison, Anne Simon, Eugene Nicole, Joseph Brami, Raymonde Coudert, Christie McDonald, Michael Wood and Antoine Compagnon."

Spis treści

Preamble 1. The Disquieting Strangeness of Marcel Proust 2. The Formalist, the Spider, and the Phenomenologist: Proust in the Magic Mirror of the Twentieth Century 3. Quel Marcel!': And Other Oddities of the Narrator's Designations in A la recherche du temps perdu 4. Strange Jewishness: Essay on the Treatment of Jewish Identity in Proust 5. Proust's Singhalese Song (A Strange Little Story) 6. A Proustian 'Metterza' 7. Da capo: Accumulations and Explosions 8. Other Eyes: Proust and the Myths of Photography 9. Truth and Justice' 10. Reading Proust Between the Lines

O autorze

Andre Benhaim