Around Proust

by Richard E. Goodkin

Book Overview

A study in obsession, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is seemingly a self-sufficient universe of remarkable internal consistency and yet is full of complex, gargantuan digressions. Richard Goodkin follows the dual spirit of the novel through highly suggestive readings of the work in its interactions with music, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cinema, and such literary genres as epic, lyric poetry, and tragedy. In exploring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015082
• ISBN13: 9780691015088
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"