Marcel Proust
By: Adam Watt
Series: Critical lives; Critical lives (London, England)
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781780230948
Subjects: Correspondence; French Novelists; Biography
Other titles: Proust
Description: This is a concise critical biography of Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of the 20th century. The book considers Proust's early years of personal and aesthetic experiment, the growth of his masterwork 'A la recherche du temps perdu', and his personal decline due to ill-health.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207).