| The Captive Contributor(s): Proust, Marcel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1546799443 ISBN-13: 9781546799443 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.20 lbs) 410 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style. Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. |