Proust's way : a field guide to In search of lost time /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shattuck, Roger
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London : W.W. Norton, ©2000.
Subjects:	Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922. > À la recherche du temps perdu. Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922. > A la recherche du temps perdu. À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel) À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust) Proust, Marcel (1871-1922). > À la recherche du temps perdu.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A sense of life : Biographical resume on Proust ; The work and Its author : Obstacles and inducements ; The life of an enfant nerveux ; An overdetermined universe
How to read a roman-fleuve : Practical matters ; The elements of the story ; The Plot ; Verisimilitude and homosexuality
The comic vision ; Four scenes ; A matter of temperament: the opening stumble ; The uses of the comic
Proust's complaint : False scents ; From places to people: the "infirmity in my nature" ; Soul error ; The paradox of consciousness
Proust's binoculars: memory and recognition : Optics and vision ; Happiness and memory ; Recognitions
Art and idolatry : Art ; Idolatry
The structure of sheer length : Finding a form ; Lost and found
Continuing disputes : Too much of Proust? ; The challenge of translation ; Filming the unfilmable ; Time and space ; Intelligence versus sensibility: Proust's wager and "experimental faith"
Reading for your life : Coda: Proust's "mysterious laws of thought"
Appendixes : The wonders of optics ; Table of the moments bienheureux ; The opening sentence.