Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time
A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
$38.41
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2010
Summary
An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired novels of the past century. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly entryway 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 pa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307472328 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307472329 |
| Author: | Patrick Alexander |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 335g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Patrick Alexander
Patrick Alexander moved to France in the early 1970s after graduating with a degree in literature from Sussex University in England. In France, he raised a family and embarked on a lifelong love affair with French literature. Throughout a professional career as an international corporate executive traveling all over the world, Alexander’s fascination with the works of Marcel Proust continued to grow. While a director at the University of Miami from 2001 to 2007, he organized a Proustian reading group, and he continues to be a regular contributor to an international Proustian forum. Alexander retired from the university in 2007 in order to work full-time on Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time.
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