San Antonio College Library

Marcel Proust chronicled society -- with its tradition and ritual, "snobisme" and erotic passion, spirit of futility and cynical ambition -- as well as his spiritual self and all mankind. The man and his work are here brought into biographical and critical focus through the eyes of his keenest interpreters. A skillful interweaving of judgement and interpretation, this collection of distinguished essays reflects the many facets of Proust criticism....

A detailed analysis of Proust's literary and philosophical influences as well as section son his earlier works.

This study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siecle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of other writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast...

"Great art discovers for us who we are," writes literature professor and critic Weinstein in this book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers who "reinvent the novel by exploding our sense of what we are." He invites us to discover our perceptions, our dreams, our own elusive, deepest stories in these masterpieces of modernist fiction. As he argues with wit and passion, these works are in...