Monsieur Proust's Library
ISBN-13: 9781590515662
Contributor(s): Anka Muhlstein
Subject: Literature: History & Criticism
Publisher Imprint: Other Press
Publication Date: 05-12-2013
Format: Hardback
Availability: Out of stock
£18.99
About the book
Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels. In this wonderfully entertaining book, Anka Muhlstein draws out these themes in Proust's work and life while highlighting the finest French literature.