Proust Among the Stars - by Malcolm Bowie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>A matchless close reading of <i>Remembrance of Things Past</i> and a lesson in how to read the great books profitably and pleasurably. Bowie asserts that Proust's novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the world's literature and that its originality lies first in the quality of Proust's textual invention--line after line, page after page.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A matchless close reading of <i>Remembrance of Things Past</i> and a lesson in how to read the great books profitably and pleasurably. Bowie asserts that Proust's novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the world's literature and that its originality lies first in the quality of Proust's textual invention -- line after line, page after page.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A searching attempt to grasp the nature of Proust's vast project.... Brilliant analyses.--Times (London)<br><br>Each [chapter] challenges traditional interpretations of Proust's handling of these themes, and deepens one's pleasure in and understanding of the novel.... Excellent.--Guardian<br><br>Genteel and meditative.--Lingua Franca<br><br>The best general study of Proust's 3,000-page work.--Times Literary Supplement<br><br>Bowie can say more in three sentences than many a scholar in a belabored chapter... This is criticism motivated by intellectual joy, creatively sustained by felicities of expression.--Victor Brombert "Los Angeles Times "<br><br>Bowie is one of our best living critics.... [His] moving wit sends his reader straight back to the text itself. Which is what criticism should do.--A. S. Byatt "London Daily Telegraph "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Malcolm Bowie is Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College. His previous books include <i>Freud, Proust, and Lacan</i> and <i>Lacan: A Modern Master.</i> He reviews regularly for the <i>Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, London Review of Books, </i> and the <i>Times Higher Education Supplement.</i>
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