Letters of Marcel Proust

Letters of Marcel Proust
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2006-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781885586452

Presents selected correspondence from the French novelist, which details his life as a dutiful son and socialite, and reveals his signature ideas about life, art, and character, which appear as major themes in his masterpiece.

Letters to the Lady Upstairs

Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0008262888

A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
Author: Jean-Yves Tadié
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 1030
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This biography of Marcel Proust provides a picture of the intellectual and social universe that fed his art, along with a critcal reading of the work itself.

Other People's Letters

Other People's Letters
Author: Mina Kirstein Curtiss
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781885586360

This wonderfully spontaneous evocation of a glamorous Proustian world reads like a detective story.

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
Author: William C. Carter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 998
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300191790

Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, this title portrays in abundant detail the life and times of literary voices of the twentieth century.

Days of Reading

Days of Reading
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2008-08-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0141963395

In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Proust and the Arts

Proust and the Arts
Author: Christie McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2015-11-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107103363

Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras.

Monsieur Proust

Monsieur Proust
Author: Céleste Albaret
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2003-10-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781590170595

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion.

Monsieur Proust's Library

Monsieur Proust's Library
Author: Anka Muhlstein
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1590515676

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels. In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein, the author of Balzac’s Omelette, draws out these themes in Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search of Lost Time, but also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.