Monsieur Proust\'s Library
Monsieur Proust\'s Library CELEBRATING THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF MARCEL PROUST "Proust not only brought to the fore the beauty of centuries past but also set the scene for the era of…
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Monsieur Proust\'s Library
CELEBRATING THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF MARCEL PROUST "Proust not only brought to the fore the beauty of centuries past but also set the scene for the era of modernism. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. This genius could not have so gloriously entered the twentieth century had he not proudly stood on the shoulders of giants." --From the ConclusionReading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a character without a book in hand.
Proust made literary taste a means of defining personality and gave literature an actual role to play in his fiction.In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein draws out these themes in The more sophisticated among them find it natural to speak in quotations.