Proust's Imaginary Museum: Reproductions and Reproduction in À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu

by Gabrielle Townsend

This study of Marcel Proust's creative imagination examines an aspect of the novel that has hitherto been largely overlooked: the author's dependence on secondary visual sources. Proust made constant use of reproductions - photographs, engravings, postcards, illustrations in books - as sources of reference and as narrative devices in their own right. Furthermore, he consistently chose to use reproductions in preference to originals, whether people,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039111248
• ISBN13: 9783039111244
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"