Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time

Author: Patrick Alexander

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-09-22

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0307472329

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An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust. At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as engaging and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust’s genius and appeal—he calls the work “outrageously bawdy and extremely funny”—and in his guide he makes it more accessible to the general reader through detailed plot summaries, historical and cultural background, a guide to the fifty most important characters, maps, family trees, illustrations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essential for readers and book groups currently reading Proust and who want help keeping track of the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader’s Guide is also a wonderful introduction for students and new readers and a memory-refresher for long-time fans.


Study Guide to Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Study Guide to Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Author: Intelligent Education

Publisher: Influence Publishers

Published: 2020-06-28

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1645423255

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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, which scholars have written about more than any other work of the twentieth-century. As a novel of the early 1900s, Remembrance of Things Past contained evocative metaphors as well as Proust’s social comments and criticism of aristocracy. Moreover, the work demonstrated shrewd satire and a mastery of character portrayal. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Proust’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.


The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust

The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust

Author: Howard Moss

Publisher: Paul Dry Books

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1589882873

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"[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful—wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."—John Updike "Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics." —George D. Painter "A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader." —Publishers Weekly "Remembrance of Things Past is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own pantheon of gods, its own religious rituals, and its own moral laws. A total vision, it does not rely on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write the Paradiso and the Inferno utilizing only the facts of his own existence without any reference to Christianity...Other novelists describe or invent worlds. Remembrance of Things Past is an entire universe created and interpreted by Marcel Proust." — from Chapter 1 "Moss lays out the sweeping claims and overarching structure of Remembrance of Things Past—the significance of Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way, or why there are such long party scenes—and is equally good at bringing to light all sorts of tiny, revealing details." — from the new Foreword by Damion Searls


Remembrance of Things Past, Volume II

Remembrance of Things Past, Volume II

Author: Marcel Proust

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1982-08-27

Total Pages: 1220

ISBN-13: 9780394711836

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From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the second two sections of his monumental achievement--The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain. Marcel Proust's masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator's experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's original English translation was heralded as an artistic achievement in its own right; the later revisions to it by Terence Kilmartin were based on the definitive French Pleiade edition.


Remembrance of Things Past

Remembrance of Things Past

Author: Marcel Proust

Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781561635221

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An adaptation of the seven books of Proust's masterpiece in graphic novel format, which explores themes of love, art, sexuality, memory, and time in late nineteenth-century France.


The Honey Locust

The Honey Locust

Author: Jeffrey Round

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781897151389

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How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans. Globe-trotting photojournalist Angela Thomas has spent all thirty-two years of her life dreaming of far-off places. Nothing that has happened to her thus far -- the dysfunction of her family, the failure of her marriage -- can convince her that "home" is where she belongs. Though she won't admit it, her job is as much an escape as it is a passion. Every foreign assignment is a chance to trade gnawing family conflicts in for situations that may kill her but won't break her heart. Everything changes when Angela is sent to cover the war in Yugoslavia. She has survived strife and destruction before, but this time is different; this time, the people around her refuse to remain at arm's length, filtered by a camera lens. Through the unexpected attachments she makes, Angela's eyes are finally opened to a view that casts her old life and her old problems in a completely different light.


A Study Guide for Vladmir Nabokov's "Guide to Berlin"

A Study Guide for Vladmir Nabokov's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1410347516

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A Study Guide for Vladmir Nabokov's "Guide to Berlin," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.


Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel Beckett

Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel Beckett

Author: Intelligent Education

Publisher: Influence Publisher

Published: 2020-03-27

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1645423859

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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot. As an unconventional but modernist author of the war ravaged twentieth-century, Beckett focused on essential elements of the human condition in dark, humorous ways. Moreover, Beckett was often associated with the “Theatre of the Absurd,” where his work displayed conventional plot and structure and utilized laughter as a prominent tool against despair. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Beckett’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.