Proust's deadline / Christine M. Cano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cano, Christine M., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Novelists, French--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, French.

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

Proust, Marcel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marcel Proust's multivolume masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu, began to appear in 1913. Over the next fifty years, it gained a reputation as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. But the novel's classic image as a completed work was later shattered by the discovery of unpublished drafts, and the "war of the Prousts" has kept scholars arguing over its definitive form ever since. Christine M. Cano's Proust's Deadline presents a concise history of the publishing and reception of À la recherche du temps perdu, and sorts out the most important issues that have arisen from the ensuing debates about the text. She ultimately shows how this quintessential "book about time" tells another story about time's passage: the story of Proust's mortal confrontation with the temporality of writing, publishing, and reading.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Quotations

Introduction

1. Forthcoming: Announcing the Recherche

2. The Dream of Simultaneous Publication

3. Organicism Gone Awry

4. Grasset's Revenge

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136) and index.

ISBN:

9786613135629

9781283135627

1283135620

9780252090721

0252090721

OCLC:

785781196