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Title: Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading & Rereading In Search of Lost Time
Author: FRIEDLANDER SAUL
Format: HARDCOVER
Imprint: OTHER PRESS
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
In this engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time, Saul Friedl nder 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, Friedl nder 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.
ISBN: 9781590519110
Pages: 176