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The Resource Proustian uncertainties : on reading and rereading In search of lost time, Saul Friedländer

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

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"An award-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. In this engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time, Saul Friedländer 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, 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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
160 pages
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
Isbn
9781590519110
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Label
Proustian uncertainties : on reading and rereading In search of lost time
Title
Proustian uncertainties
Title remainder
on reading and rereading In search of lost time
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Saul Friedländer
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"An award-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. In this engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time, Saul Friedländer 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, 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"--
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1932-
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Friedländer, Saul
Dewey number
843/.912
Index
no index present
LC call number
PQ2631.R63
LC item number
.A7914 2020
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Proust, Marcel
  • Proust, Marcel
  • Memory in literature
  • Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
  • Proust, Marcel
  • Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
  • Memory in literature
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Proustian uncertainties : on reading and rereading In search of lost time, Saul Friedländer
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Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160)
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
on1143647330
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
160 pages
Isbn
9781590519110
Lccn
2020012475
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1143647330
Label
Proustian uncertainties : on reading and rereading In search of lost time, Saul Friedländer
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
on1143647330
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
160 pages
Isbn
9781590519110
Lccn
2020012475
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1143647330

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