| Marcel Proust: Swann's Way Contributor(s): Stern, Sheila (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521315441 ISBN-13: 9780521315449 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1989 Annotation: This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 843.912 |
| LCCN: 88031884 |
| Series: Landmarks of World Literature (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 4.7" W x 7.94" (0.38 lbs) 148 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Swann's Way, published in 1913, is the first part of Proust's seven-part novel A la Recherche du temps perdu. The author's expansion, revision and correction of the work were cut short by his death in 1922, and sixty-six years later editors are still producing variants of the last three volumes based on working notebooks. The novel's structure was compared by its author to that of a cathedral, and its status is that of one of the greatest literary landmarks of the twentieth century. Sheila Stern's study begins with a summary of the whole novel and goes on to give an account of the activity of reading as part of its subject-matter. Two chapters are devoted to Swann's Way itself, with close attention to the opening pages, and to such topics as memory, time, imagery and names. The book's reception in various Western literatures is discussed, and there is a guide to further reading. |