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020			_a9781590519110
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100			_aFriedlander, Saul
245			_aProustian uncertainties : on reading and rereading In search of lost time
260			_bOther Press, _c2020 _aNew York :
300			_a160 p. ; _c22 cm
365			_b25.00 _cUSD _d81.20
520			_aAn 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
650			_aCriticism and interpretation
650			_aPhilosophical concept
650			_aMemory in Literature
650			_aIdentity in Literature
650			_aTime
650			_aDeath
650			_aLove
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