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Proust Among the Stars: How To Read Him; Why Read Him?

By (author) Malcolm Bowie

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The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works. This is a matchless close reading of a literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and a lesson in how to read the Great Books profitably and pleasurably. â€˜Read this excellent bookâ€™ Stuart Jeffries, Guardian â€˜Very refreshingâ€¦ a splendidly tough-minded and generous introductionâ€™ Gabriel Josipovici, Independent â€˜Brilliantâ€™ Peter Conrad, Observer â€˜A splendidly thought-filled bookâ€™ Eric Griffiths, Evening Standard A book that recalls that Proustâ€™s novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the worldâ€™s literature; and that its originality lies first in the quality of Proustâ€™s textual invention, page after page, line after line. Art, death, sex, politics, loss, guilt, morality â€“ all Proustâ€™s major themes are here in all their glory, but revealed close up.