Living and Dying with Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast
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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

Author: Christopher Prendergast

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/25/2022


Synopsis

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime's reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time.

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, color, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humor.

Entertaining and erudite, Prendergast's book will surely become the companion for all listeners either about to reembark on Proust's three-million-word journey or setting out for the first time.

About Christopher Prendergast

Christopher Prendergast is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He writes for the London Review of Books and the New Left Review. He is also the general editor of the Penguin reissues of Proust's work, published in 2002.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse

PAIN PERDU (Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1892) About twenty years ago, I read the first volume of In Search of Lost Time just to get a taste of it, not intending to read the whole cycle, as I was too fidgety to imagine spending half or more of a reading year on just one work. Bearing in mind a co-worker’s a......more

Texto algo disperso e com um escolha temática que achei particularmente desinteressante. Para terminar o #lerProust esperava algo mais enriquecedor. Bem na verdade posso sempre voltar a ler Citati.......more

Goodreads review by Dan

My thanks to both NetGalley and the publisher Europa Editions for an advanced copy of this commentary on the works of Marcel Proust. Over the 3 million words that make up the series In Search of Lost Time or as the French refer to the work La Recherche the author Marcel Proust discussed and reflected......more

Goodreads review by Jerry

Cambridge French language professor tells us about Proust and his use of the language going into special treatment of death, life, color, fragrance, etc., as shown in Remembrance on things past. Interesting and illuminating. . . . synesthesia . . . . transposed sensation. . . . p. 39 . . . immense edi......more