Marcel Proust: A Biography (Two-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
George D. Painter's "Marcel Proust: A Biography" stands as the definitive literary biography of the French novelist, tracing his life from a sickly, asthmatic childhood in Auteuil through his emergence as the author of "In Search of Lost Time." Painter reconstructs Proust's aristocratic social circles, his devoted relationship with his mother, and the illnesses and obsessions that shaped his fiction, arguing that Proust transmuted his lived experience directly into the fabric of his masterwork.
Author: George D. Painter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Random House
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
George D. Painter's "Marcel Proust: A Biography" stands as the definitive literary biography of the French novelist, tracing his life from a sickly, asthmatic childhood in Auteuil through his emergence as the author of "In Search of Lost Time." Painter reconstructs Proust's aristocratic social circles, his devoted relationship with his mother, and the illnesses and obsessions that shaped his fiction, arguing that Proust transmuted his lived experience directly into the fabric of his masterwork.