Proust Among the Stars
For many, Proust is the supreme European writer of the twentieth century. This book tackles his achievement head-on. Art, death, sex, politics, loss, guilt, morality -- Proust's major themes are revealed and explained here.\ Proust Among the Stars is a matchless close reading of Remembrance of Things Past and a lesson in how to read the great books profitably and pleasurably. Malcolm Bowie asserts that Proust's novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the world's...
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A matchless close reading of Remembrance of Things Past 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.Times Literary SupplementThe best general study of Proust´s 3, 000-page work.
Note on Texts and TranslationsPrefaceISelf1IITime30IIIArt68IVPolitics126VMorality175VISex209VIIDeath267Epilogue319Notes329Acknowledgements338Further Reading339Index341
\ Times Literary SupplementThe best general study of Proust's 3,000-page work.\ \ \ \ \ \ Lingua FrancaGenteel and meditative.\ \ \ \ Los Angeles TimesBowie 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\ \ \ \ \ \ London Daily TelegraphBowie 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\ \ \ \ \ \ GuardianEach [chapter] challenges traditional interpretations of Proust's handling of these themes, and deepens one's pleasure in and understanding of the novel.... Excellent.\ \ \ \ \ \ Times (London)A searching attempt to grasp the nature of Proust's vast project.... Brilliant analyses.\ \ \ \ \ \ Time Magazines Literary SupplementThe best general study of Proust's 3,000-page work.\ \ \ \ \ Los Angeles Times\ - Victor Brombert\ 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.\ \ \ \ \ \ London Daily Telegraph\ - A. S. Byatt\ 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.\ \ \ \ \ \ Time Magazines (London)A searching attempt to grasp the nature of Proust's vast project.... Brilliant analyses.\ \ \ \ \ Times LondonA searching attempt to grasp the nature of Proust´s vast project. . . . Brilliant analyses.\ \ \ \ \ GuardianEach [chapter] challenges traditional interpretations of Proust´s handling of these themes, and deepens one´s pleasure in and understanding of the novel. . . . Excellent.\ \ \ \ \ Times Literary SupplementThe best general study of Proust´s 3, 000-page work.\ \ \ \ \ A. S. ByattBowie 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.\ \ \ \ \ Victor BrombertBowie 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.\ \ \ \ \ Lingua FrancaGenteel and meditative.\ \ \ \ \ Daily TelegraphBowie is one of our best living critics....[His] moving wit sends his reader straight back to the text itself.\ \ \ \ \ The GuardianChallenges traditional interpretations of Proust's handling of these themes, and deepens one's pleasure in and understanding of the novel.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsBowie (French, U. of Oxford) offers an elegant meditation on Marcel Proust's thoughts about the self, time, art, politics, morality, sex, and death as revealed in A la recherche du temps perdu. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \ \ \ \ Internet BookwatchFans of Proust's writings or Remembrance Of Things Past will relish this title, which tackles the major themes in his works - art, sex, and politics - and provides a reader's link to the meaningful passages in his weighty writings. A 'must' for any student of Remembrance Of Things Past who would better understand Proust's method and philosophy.\ \ \ \ \ Victor BrombertThis is criticism motivated by intellectual joy, creatively sustained by felicities of expression.\ —The Los Angeles Times\ \ \ \ \ A. S. ByattBowie is one of our best living critics….[His] moving wit sends his readers straight back to the text itself. Which is what criticism should do.\ —London Daily Telegraph\ \
