Swann's Way
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In its centennial year, Marcel Proust as masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition. Marcel Proust as seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives, among them the greatest novel ever writtenö and the greatest novel of the first half of the twentieth century.ö Swann as Way, the first volume of the Recherche and the most widely read and taught of all the volumes, is the ideal introduction to Proust as inventive genius. This Norton Critical Edition is based on C. K. Scott Moncrieff as translation, which introduced the English-speaking world to Proust and was published during the author as lifetime. It is accompanied by Susanna Lee as introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. Marcel Proust was forty-two years old when Swann as Way was published, but its foundational ideas and general shape had been evolving for decades. Contextsö includes a 1912 reader as report of the manuscript that exemplifies publishers a complicated reactions to Proust as new form of writing. Also included are three important post-publication reviews of the novel, by Elie-Joseph Bois, Lucien Daudet, and Paul Souday, as well as AndrÚ Arnyvelde as 1913 interview with Proust. The fourteen critical essays and interpretations of Swann as Way in this volume speak to the novel as many facetsùfrom the musical to the artistic to its representations of Judaism and homosexuality. Contributors include GÚrard Genette, whose Metonymy in Proustö appears here in English translation for the first time, along with Gilles Deleuze, Roger Shattuck, Claudia Brodsky, Julia Kristeva, Margaret E. Gray, and Alain de Botton, among others. The edition also includes a Chronology of Proust as Life and Work, a Selected Chronology of French Literature from 1870 to 1929, and a Selected Bibliography.
Specifications
| Author | Proust |
| ISBN/EAN | 9780393905168 |
| Type | ebook |
| License duration |
Read ebook online: 365 days
Read ebook offline: perpetual |
Article description
In its centennial year, Marcel Proust as masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition. Marcel Proust as seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives, among them the greatest novel ever writtenö and the greatest novel of the first half of the twentieth century.ö Swann as Way, the first volume of the Recherche and the most widely read and taught of all the volumes, is the ideal introduction to Proust as inventive genius. This Norton Critical Edition is based on C. K. Scott Moncrieff as translation, which introduced the English-speaking world to Proust and was published during the author as lifetime. It is accompanied by Susanna Lee as introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. Marcel Proust was forty-two years old when Swann as Way was published, but its foundational ideas and general shape had been evolving for decades. Contextsö includes a 1912 reader as report of the manuscript that exemplifies publishers a complicated reactions to Proust as new form of writing. Also included are three important post-publication reviews of the novel, by Elie-Joseph Bois, Lucien Daudet, and Paul Souday, as well as AndrÚ Arnyvelde as 1913 interview with Proust. The fourteen critical essays and interpretations of Swann as Way in this volume speak to the novel as many facetsùfrom the musical to the artistic to its representations of Judaism and homosexuality. Contributors include GÚrard Genette, whose Metonymy in Proustö appears here in English translation for the first time, along with Gilles Deleuze, Roger Shattuck, Claudia Brodsky, Julia Kristeva, Margaret E. Gray, and Alain de Botton, among others. The edition also includes a Chronology of Proust as Life and Work, a Selected Chronology of French Literature from 1870 to 1929, and a Selected Bibliography.
Specifications
| Author | Proust |
| ISBN/EAN | 9780393905168 |
| Type | ebook |
| License duration |
Read ebook online: 365 days
Read ebook offline: perpetual |