Proustian uncertainties : on reading and rereading In search of lost time / Saul Friedländer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedländer, Saul, 1932- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Proust, Marcel.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Criticism and interpretation.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Memory in literature.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 163 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian revisits Marcel Proust's masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity--that of the novel's narrator and Proust's own. This engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust himself, and what the significance is of these various points of commonality and divergence. We know, for example, that the author did not hide his homosexuality, but the narrator did. Why the difference? We know that the narrator tried to marginalize his part-Jewish background. Does this reflect the author's position, and how does the narrator handle what he tries, but does not manage, to dismiss? These are major questions raised by the text and reflected in the text, to which the author's life doesn't give obvious answers. The narrator's reflections on time, on death, on memory, and on love are as many paths leading to the image of self that he projects. In Proustian Uncertainties, Saul Friedländer draws on his personal experience from a life spent investigating the ties between history and memory to offer a fresh perspective on the seminal work.

Contents:

Family matters

To be or not to be a Jew?

Forbidden love

A comprehensive moral accounting?

The Arabian nights

The narrator

Time and death

Memory

Concluding remarks and some more.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Friedländer, Saul, 1932- Proustian uncertainties

ISBN:

9781590519127

1590519124

Publisher Number:

40030264967

EB00812561 Recorded Books

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.