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.
- ISBN10 1590515668
- ISBN13 9781590515662
- Publish Date 6 November 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Other Press LLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 146
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781590515662