Monsieur Proust's Library

Monsieur Proust's Library
Author: Anka Muhlstein
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1590515676


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Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels. In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein, the author of Balzac’s Omelette, draws out these themes in Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search of Lost Time, but also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.


Monsieur Proust's Library
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Anka Muhlstein
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-06 - Publisher: Other Press, LLC

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Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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Balzac's Omelette
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Anka Muhlstein
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-14 - Publisher: Other Press, LLC

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“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty