Proust, Class, and Nation

by Edward J. Hughes

Writing in 1927, Julien Benda described France as being afflicted by the twin scourges of narrow, class-based politics and rabid nationalism. He nevertheless identified Marcel Proust (who had died in 1922) as a writer who had refused to embrace the ideological narrowness of his age. Edward J. Hughes seeks to assess how Proust and his novel A la recherche du temps perdu might be understood in relation to issues of class and nation. A la recherche was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199609861
• ISBN13: 9780199609864
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"