Proust in love / William C. Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, William C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Sexual behavior.

Proust, Marcel.

Novelists, French--20th century--Sexual behavior.

Novelists, French.

Homosexuality and literature--France.

Homosexuality and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 252 p., [8] p. of plates) ) ill., ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The acclaimed Proust biographer William C. Carter portrays Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of Proust in love, Carter also shows how the author's experiences became major themes in his novel In Search of Lost Time. Carter discusses Proust's adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought after the journalist Jean Lorrain alluded to his homosexuality in print, his flirtations with respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with young men of the servant class. With new revelations about Proust's love life and a gallery of photographs, the book provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust's gay Paris.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations of Titles of Proust's Works

1. Promiscuous Proust

2. Mighty Hermaphrodite

3. My Heart Beats Only for You

4. Jalousie

5. A Nun of Speed

6. Where Fair Strangers Abound

7. Lovesick

8. Grieving and Forgetting

9. The Night Prowler

10. The Boys from the Ritz

11. Love Is Divine

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-243) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-73469-1

9786611734695

0-300-13488-6

OCLC:

1024047885