The Proust project / edited by André Aciman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aciman, André.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.

Proust, Marcel.

Physical Description:

xxi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux : Turtle Point Press Books & Co. : Helen Marx Books, [2004]

Summary:

Aciman asked 28 contemporary writers to choose a favorite passage from Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" and introduce it in a brief essay. Gathered together, along with the passages themselves, these essays form the perfect introduction to the greatest novel of the last century.

Contents:

I Never Took My Eyes Off My Mother / Judith Thurman 6

The Steeples Appeared So Distant / Lydia Davis 14

Odette Had Received Him in a Pink Silk Dressing-Gown / Olivier Bernier 23

She Started Back in Alarm / Lara Vapnyar 30

The New Year's Day of Old Men / Colm Toibin 36

My Fine, Scarlet, Ever-Changing Morning / Alain de Botton 42

Where Had I Looked at Them Before? / Geoffrey O'Brien 48

I Went by a Devious Route / Wayne Koestenbaum 57

Discoursing in Front of an Octopus / Andrew Solomon 63

Each of Us Is Indeed Alone / J. D. McClatchy 71

Your Grandmother Is Doomed / Mary Ann Caws 74

A Race Upon Which a Curse Is Laid / Edmund White 81

The Calendar of Feelings / John Jeremiah Sullivan 91

Intermittencies of the Heart / Richard Howard 97

Upheaval of My Entire Being / Andre Aciman 100

By Shutting Her Eyes / Susan Minot 110

From the Trumpet of the Chair Mender, to the Flute of the Goatherd / Renaud Machart 117

This Lost Fatherland / Jonathan Burnham 138

I Succumbed Once Again to the Music / Jeremy Eichler 140

I Saw Big Tears Glistening in His Eyes / Louis Auchincloss 152

This Unknown Quality of a Unique World / Anka Muhlstein 162

Mademoiselle Albertine Has Gone / Daniel Mark Epstein 168

I Felt That This Last Sentence Was Merely Phrase-Making / Shirley Hazzard 174

My Mother and I Would Enter the Baptistery / Louis Begley 186

The Cab Turned into the Champs-Elysees / Leslie Epstein 195

The Arrival of Old Age / Diane Johnson 203

A Feeling of Vertigo Seized Me as I Looked Down / Anne Garreta 210

It Was My Life, Was in Fact Me / Wyatt Mason 214.

ISBN:

0374238324

OCLC:

54806092