"The present volume stems from an international symposium convened at Princeton University on 22 and 23 April 2006"--Preamble.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The disquieting strangeness of Marcel Proust / David Ellison -- The formalist, the spider, and the phenomenologist : Proust in the magic mirror of the twentieth century / Anne Simon -- 'Quel Marcel!' (and other oddities of the narrator's designations in A la recherche du temps perdu / Dugène Nicole -- Strange Jewishness : essay on the treatment of Jewish identity in Proust / Joseph Brami -- Proust's Singhalese song (a strange little story) / André Benhaïm -- A Proustian 'Metterza' / Raymonde coudert -- Da capo : accumulations and explosions / Christie McDonald -- Other eyes : Proust and the myths of photography / Michael Wood -- 'Truth and justice' / Antoine Compagnon -- Reading Proust between the lines / Malcolm Bowie.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of A la Recherche du Temps perdu - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary miniatures, his orderly structure where every law is subverted, his chronology where time can be undone and his geography where places can superimpose: in these, and many other ways, Proust continues to astonish even readers who have engaged with him for their entire careers. In this book, arising from the Princeton symposium of 2006, major critics come together to offer provocative readings of a work which is at the same time classical and unusual, French and foreign, familiar and strange."--BOOK JACKET.
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Proust, Marcel,1871-1922-- Criticism and interpretation.
Proust, Marcel,1871-1922., À la recherche du temps perdu.