The Quest For Proust
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few literary lives have captivated the imagination quite like that of Marcel Proust, the reclusive, cork-lined-room genius whose monumental In Search of Lost Time reshaped the very architecture of the novel. In The Quest for Proust, the celebrated biographer André Maurois presents a richly detailed and deeply sympathetic portrait of the man behind the masterpiece, chronicling Proust's privileged Parisian upbringing, his fragile health, his passionate social ambitions, and the extraordinary inner discipline that produced one of literature's most towering achievements. Translated with elegant fidelity by Gerard Hopkins, Maurois brings to bear his renowned biographical craft — precise, humane, and illuminated by genuine literary insight — to argue that Proust's life and art are inseparable, each feeding and sustaining the other. The result is a work that does not merely recount a life but reconstructs an entire world: the glittering salons of the Belle Époque, the anguish of lost love, and the relentless transmutation of memory into art. For anyone who has ever been seduced by Proust's prose, or who wishes to understand why he continues to matter, this biography serves as both an essential key and an irresistible invitation.
Author: André Maurois
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few literary lives have captivated the imagination quite like that of Marcel Proust, the reclusive, cork-lined-room genius whose monumental In Search of Lost Time reshaped the very architecture of the novel. In The Quest for Proust, the celebrated biographer André Maurois presents a richly detailed and deeply sympathetic portrait of the man behind the masterpiece, chronicling Proust's privileged Parisian upbringing, his fragile health, his passionate social ambitions, and the extraordinary inner discipline that produced one of literature's most towering achievements. Translated with elegant fidelity by Gerard Hopkins, Maurois brings to bear his renowned biographical craft — precise, humane, and illuminated by genuine literary insight — to argue that Proust's life and art are inseparable, each feeding and sustaining the other. The result is a work that does not merely recount a life but reconstructs an entire world: the glittering salons of the Belle Époque, the anguish of lost love, and the relentless transmutation of memory into art. For anyone who has ever been seduced by Proust's prose, or who wishes to understand why he continues to matter, this biography serves as both an essential key and an irresistible invitation.