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

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

Title remainder

on reading and rereading In search of lost time

Statement of responsibility

Saul Friedländer

Creator

• Friedländer, Saul, 1932-

Author

• Friedländer, Saul, 1932-

Subject

• Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
• Memory in literature
• Memory in literature
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation
• À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel)
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
• Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

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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Provided by publisher

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LBSOR/DLC

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