Proust : the search
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New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2015].
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9780300164169, 0300164165
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Published
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2015].
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Book
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xiv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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9780300164169, 0300164165

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-188) and index.
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"Marcel Proust came into his own as a novelist comparatively late in life, yet only Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky were his equals when it came to creating characters as memorably human. As biographer Benjamin Taylor suggests, Proust was a literary lightweight before writing his multivolume masterwork In Search of Lost Time, but following a series of momentous historical and personal events, he became -- against all expectations -- one of the greatest writers of his, and indeed any, era. This insightful, beautifully written biography examines Proust's artistic struggles -- the "search" of the subtitle -- and stunning metamorphosis in the context of his times. Taylor provides an in-depth study of the author's life while exploring how Proust's personal correspondence and published works were greatly informed by his mother's Judaism, his homosexuality, and such dramatic events as the Dreyfus Affair and, above all, World War I. As Taylor writes in his prologue, "Proust's Search is the most encyclopedic of novels, encompassing the essentials of human nature. . . . His account, running from the early years of the Third Republic to the aftermath of World War I, becomes the inclusive story of all lives, a colossal mimesis. To read the entire Search is to find oneself transfigured and victorious at journey's end, at home in time and in eternity too.""--Book jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Taylor, B. (2015). Proust: the search . Yale University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Taylor, Benjamin, 1952-. 2015. Proust: The Search. Yale University Press.

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Taylor, Benjamin, 1952-. Proust: The Search Yale University Press, 2015.

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Taylor, Benjamin. Proust: The Search Yale University Press, 2015.

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