Synopses & Reviews
For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's , Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece, and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. , the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.
Synopsis
"Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."--Richard Bernstein,
About the Author
Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.