Proust's way
Subtitle: a field guide to In search of lost time
By: Roger Shattuck.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Description: "Shattuck reveals that Proust must be read as carefully as a detective story, in which every detail becomes a clue to something else. At the same time, every page coruscates with a blend of passion and anxiety over the introduction of strange new elements. Shattuck writes on the ways in which Proust explores character, the false scent of social prestige, existential loss, humor, even memory itself.

Finally, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors and translators, and distances his subject carefully from the tradition of aesthetic decadence blazed by Baudelaire and Wilde."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index.