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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781787703513 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
843.912 |
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PRE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Prendergast, Christopher |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Living and dying with Marcel Proust |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Europa Editions, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
243 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
909.69 |
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₹ |
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| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, Proust's In Search of Lost Time describes a unique journey, combining elements drawn from the timeless narratives of great expectations and lost illusions. In this lively and entertaining book, Christopher Prendergast traces that journey as it unfolds on an arc defined by the polarities in his title: living and dying. At once a careful contemplation Proust's masterwork and an exploration of the rich sensory and impressionistic tapestry of a lived world, Living and Dying with Marcel Proust addresses such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food, digestion, colour, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humour. "One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, A la recherche du temps perdu belongs in the tradition of the Initiation Story, the journey it describes combining elements drawn from the earlier narratives of great expectations and lost illusions, while recasting them in ways that are distinctively Proust's. The eminent Proust scholar, Christopher Prendergast, traces that journey as it unfolds on an arc defined by the polarity of his title, living and dying. His book offers a chapter by chapter exploration of the rich sensory and impressionistic tapestry of a lived world, woven by the pulse of desire, the hauntings of memory and an ever alert responsiveness to tastes, perfumes, sounds, and colours. It also traces the construction of a unique architecture of narrative time and a corresponding mode of story-telling, marked by all manner of loops, swerves, detours, regressions and returns, from the macro level of the novel's plot to the micro level of the famously elaborate Proustian sentence. The lives of his characters, both major and minor, are shown as criss-crossing and converging in ways that often take the reader by surprise, before descending the arc on an irreversible trajectory of decline, as the body starts to fail and the grave beckons. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Art appreciation |
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French, Literary Criticism |
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Involuntary memory |
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Stendhal syndrome |
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Proust effect |
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Books |