The Cambridge Companion to ProustRichard Bales The Cambridge Companion to Proust aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters and its humour. |
Contents
From Belle Epoque to First World War the social panorama | 7 |
The vast structure of recollection from life to literature | 25 |
Ruskin and the cathedral of lost souls | 42 |
The birth and development of A la recherche du temps perdu | 58 |
Lost and found the structure of Prousts novel | 74 |
Prousts Narrator | 85 |
The unconscious | 100 |
The texture of Prousts novel | 117 |
Proust and social spaces | 151 |
Love sexuality and friendship | 168 |
Proust and the fine arts | 183 |
Proust and posterity | 200 |
Proust and the art of brevity | 216 |
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Prousts human comedy | 135 |
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