Proustian Uncertainties

Proustian Uncertainties
Author: Saul Friedländer
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1590519124


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Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity—that of the novel’s narrator and Proust’s own. This engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust himself, and what the significance is of these various points of commonality and divergence. We know, for example, that the author did not hide his homosexuality, but the narrator did. Why the difference? We know that the narrator tried to marginalize his part-Jewish background. Does this reflect the author’s position, and how does the narrator handle what he tries, but does not manage, to dismiss? These are major questions raised by the text and reflected in the text, to which the author’s life doesn’t give obvious answers. The narrator’s reflections on time, on death, on memory, and on love are as many paths leading to the image of self that he projects. In Proustian Uncertainties, Saul Friedländer draws on his personal experience from a life spent investigating the ties between history and memory to offer a fresh perspective on the seminal work.


Proustian Uncertainties
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Saul Friedländer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-01 - Publisher: Other Press, LLC

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Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature
Proustian Uncertainties
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Saul Friedländer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-08 - Publisher: Other Press, LLC

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Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature
Where Memory Leads
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Saul Friedländer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-08 - Publisher: Other Press, LLC

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's return to memoir, a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents, published in tandem with his classic work of Ho
When Memory Comes
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Saul Friedländer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Four months before Hitler came to power, Pavel Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old Pavel and his family wer
Dissipatio H.G.
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Guido Morselli
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-01 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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A fantastic and philosophical vision of the apocalypse by one of the most striking Italian novelists of the twentieth century. From his solitary buen retiro in