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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Critic Reviews
Great
Based on 5 reviews on
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book of 2022
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime's reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time.
One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, Proust's In Search of Lost Time describes a unique journey, combining elements drawn from the timeless narratives of great expectations and lost illusions. In this lively and entertaining book, Christopher Prendergast traces that journey as it unfolds on an arc defined by the polarities in his title: living and dying.
At once a careful contemplation Proust's masterwork and an exploration of the rich sensory and impressionistic tapestry of a lived world, Living and Dying with Marcel Proust addresses such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food, digestion, color, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humor.
Entertaining and erudite, Prendergast's book will surely become the companion for all readers either about to reembark on Proust's three-million-word journey or setting out for the first time.
"Splendid... Reading [it] feels like, say, seeing all of Venice in a gondola, seated beside a patient, smiling, all-knowing art historian."--Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review
Book Details
- Publisher: Europa Compass
- Publish Date: Jun 7th, 2022
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.00in - 4.60in - 0.90in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781609457600
- Categories: • European - French• Modern - 20th Century• Books & Reading
About the Author
Christopher Prendergast is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. He writes for the London Review of Books and the New Left Review. He is also the general editor of the Penguin reissues of Proust's work, published in 2002.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"Proust has become the premier novelist of the 20th century. Every aspect of his uneventful but hugely productive life has been studied.... Christopher Prendergast's splendid new book, Living and Dying With Marcel Proust, revisits all the various threads woven into this intricate tapestry. Sometimes reading him feels like, say, seeing all of Venice in a gondola, seated beside a patient, smiling, all-knowing art historian."--Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review
"Literate, lively, and leavened by recurring moments of wry and gentle humor, Christopher Prendergast's Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast."--Lydia Davis, winner of the International Booker Prize
★ "Prendergast sheds light on the novelist's rich sensory world in this bibliophile's treasure chest... This one's not to be missed."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"A magnificent and very living book."--Mary Ann Caws, The Brooklyn Rail
"An excellent close reading."--Washington Post
"A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity... a real delight. No Proustian should be without it."--Andrew Marr
"This book will prompt many to reread Proust. For readers interested in 20th-century French literature and individuals with Proustian affinities."--Library Journal
"Scholarly, rich and succinct... [An] irresistible journey."--Irish Times
"Prendergast brings the work, and the great man himself, to life."--Buzz Magazine