Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust by Christopher Prendergast
A lifetimes reading of Prousts masterpiece: A highly entertaining book that takes in such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food and digestion, colour, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humour.
"A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity.. a real delight. No Proustian should be without it." * Andrew Marr *
"Literate, lively, and leavened by wry and gentle humour, Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast." * Lydia Davis, winner of the International Booker Prize *
“Scholarly, rich and succinct.” * Irish Times *
“Christopher Prendergast takes issue with the idea that literature can be used as a self-help manual.” -- Tom Sutcliffe * BBC Radio 4: Start the Week *
“A bibliophile treasure chest….Prendergast lays out a Proustian feast in each chapter. This one’s not to be missed.” *STARRED REVIEW* * Publishers Weekly *
Top 10 books of essays and literary criticism 2022 "Prendergast delves into a litany of Proustian miscellany, including insomnia, memory, addiction, and humor." * Publishers Weekly *
“A magnificent and very living book.” * Brooklyn Rail *
“A thoroughly life-affirming book.” * France Magazine *
"Brushing away the dust of bone-dry scholarship, Prendergast brings the work, and the great man himself, to life." * Buzz Magazine *
"This is a witty, urbane, entertaining guide to one of the glories of European literature. Any work on Proust that manages to mention en passant Fairport Convention, Kevin Kline, T.S. Eliot and Karl Marx is certainly one that is not hampered by academic convention." * Shiny New Books *
"This book will prompt many to reread Proust." * Library Journal *
"Literate, lively, and leavened by wry and gentle humour, Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast." * Lydia Davis, winner of the International Booker Prize *
“Scholarly, rich and succinct.” * Irish Times *
“Christopher Prendergast takes issue with the idea that literature can be used as a self-help manual.” -- Tom Sutcliffe * BBC Radio 4: Start the Week *
“A bibliophile treasure chest….Prendergast lays out a Proustian feast in each chapter. This one’s not to be missed.” *STARRED REVIEW* * Publishers Weekly *
Top 10 books of essays and literary criticism 2022 "Prendergast delves into a litany of Proustian miscellany, including insomnia, memory, addiction, and humor." * Publishers Weekly *
“A magnificent and very living book.” * Brooklyn Rail *
“A thoroughly life-affirming book.” * France Magazine *
"Brushing away the dust of bone-dry scholarship, Prendergast brings the work, and the great man himself, to life." * Buzz Magazine *
"This is a witty, urbane, entertaining guide to one of the glories of European literature. Any work on Proust that manages to mention en passant Fairport Convention, Kevin Kline, T.S. Eliot and Karl Marx is certainly one that is not hampered by academic convention." * Shiny New Books *
"This book will prompt many to reread Proust." * Library Journal *
Christopher Prendergast is Emeritus Professor of Modern French Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He directed the 2002 Penguin translation of A la recherche du temps perdu and is the author of Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic published in 2013.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787703513 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787703517 |
| Title | Living and Dying with Marcel Proust |
| Author | Christopher Prendergast |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-01-13 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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