Proust Among the Stars
The best general study of Proust's 3,000-page work.(Times Literary Supplement)Genteel and meditative.(Lingua Franca)Bowie can say more in three sentences than many a scholar in a belabored chapter... This is criticism motivated by intellectual joy, creatively sustained by felicities of expression.(Victor BrombertLos Angeles Times)Bowie is one of our best living critics.... [His] moving wit sends his reader straight back to the text itself. Which is what criticism should do.(A. S. ByattLondon Daily Telegraph)Each [chapter] challenges traditional interpretations of Proust's handling of these themes, and deepens one's pleasure in and understanding of the novel.... Excellent.(Guardian)A searching attempt to grasp the nature of Proust's vast project.... Brilliant analyses.(Times (London))