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Madame Proust
Evelyne Bloch-Dano
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Description for Madame Proust
Hardcover. Aims to acquaint Proust fans with Jeanne Weil Proust. This book captures the life and times of Proust's mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer's son to her lifelong worries about her son's sexuality, health problems, and talent. It explores the culture of fin de siecle France. Translator(s): Kaplan, Alice. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 610.
Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" opens with one of the most famous scenes in literature, as young Marcel, unable to fall asleep, waits anxiously for his mother to come to his bedroom and kiss him good night. Proust's own mother is central to the meaning of his masterpiece, and she has always held a special role in literary history, both as a character and as a decisive influence on the great writer's career. Without knowing much about her, we think of her as the quintessential writer's mother. Now, Evelyne Bloch-Dano's touching biography acquaints Proust fans with the real ... Read more
Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" opens with one of the most famous scenes in literature, as young Marcel, unable to fall asleep, waits anxiously for his mother to come to his bedroom and kiss him good night. Proust's own mother is central to the meaning of his masterpiece, and she has always held a special role in literary history, both as a character and as a decisive influence on the great writer's career. Without knowing much about her, we think of her as the quintessential writer's mother. Now, Evelyne Bloch-Dano's touching biography acquaints Proust fans with the real ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226056425
SKU
V9780226056425
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About Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Evelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of many books, including a prize-winning biography of Emile Zola's mother and, most recently, a novel, Le Biographe. Alice Kaplan is the author of, among other books, French Lessons, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach, and The Interpreter.
Reviews for Madame Proust
"Evelyne Bloch-Dano's Madame Proust provides a wealth of new details about Marcel Proust's formative years and illustrates, as never before, the importance of his Jewish heritage. It does so by concentrating on the most important love relationship in Proust's life: the great affection he had for his mother. Carefully researched, richly documented, and skillfully translated by Alice Kaplan, Bloch-Dano's book ... Read more