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Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism and parvenu hijinks even as he revealed their essential hollowness. Proust begins, of course, at the beginning--with the earliest childhood perceptions and sorrows. Then, over several thousand pages, he retraces the course of his own adolescence and adulthood, democratically dividing his experiences among the narrator and a sprawling cast of characters. Who else has ever decanted life into such ornate, knowing, wrought-iron sentences? Who has subjected love to such merciless microscopy, discriminating between the tiniest variations of desire and self-delusion? Who else has produced a grief-stricken record of time's erosion that can also make you laugh for entire pages? The answer to all these questions is: nobody.
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Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1989
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- Titel
- Remembrance of Things Past
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Marcel Proust
- Verlag
- Penguin
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1989
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 1216
- ISBN10
- 0140182233
- ISBN13
- 9780140182231
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Weltliteratur, Philosophisches Thema, Liebe, Beziehungen, Literarische Fiktion, Erinnerungen, Zeit
- Bewertung
- 4,4 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism and parvenu hijinks even as he revealed their essential hollowness. Proust begins, of course, at the beginning--with the earliest childhood perceptions and sorrows. Then, over several thousand pages, he retraces the course of his own adolescence and adulthood, democratically dividing his experiences among the narrator and a sprawling cast of characters. Who else has ever decanted life into such ornate, knowing, wrought-iron sentences? Who has subjected love to such merciless microscopy, discriminating between the tiniest variations of desire and self-delusion? Who else has produced a grief-stricken record of time's erosion that can also make you laugh for entire pages? The answer to all these questions is: nobody.