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La prisonnière Marcel Proust publisher: , 1923 translated as: The Captive publisher: Everyman's Library, 2001 (revised translation) translation: C.K. / Kilmartin Scott Moncrieff
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| ON PROUST'S BOOKSHELF Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1795-1796 Slapdash sequel to the Apprenticeship; Wilhelm finds his calling as a surgeon. Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert, 1857 Emma Bovary, a young country doctor' s wife, seeks escape from the boredom of her existence in love affairs and romantic yearnings, but is doomed to disillusionment. 'La Comédie Humaine' Honoré de Balzac, 1830-1850 Multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories (nearly 100!) depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy 1815-1848. Memoirs Chateaubriand, 1848-1850P Autobiography of the French writer (1768-1848), witness to the historically crucial times of French Revolution, Napoleon, and Restoration. Against Nature Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1884 Des Esseintes is a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments, starting with the decision to give his giant pet tortoise a jewel-encrusted shell... Pages from the Goncourt Journal Edmond & Jules de Goncourt, 1851-1896 Selections from the diary of the De Goncourt brothers: novelists, critics and dilettanti of Parisian literary and fashionable circles during the second half of the 19th century. An Introduction to Metaphysics , 1903 Reprints the 1949 publication of the 1912 translation of the essay Introduction a la metaphysique, which appeared in a French journal in January 1903. A good introduction to his work. | BOOKS BY MARCEL PROUST: Swann's Way 1913 Volume I of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the hopeless love affair that a friend of the family carries on with young Odette de Crecy. | WHAT TO READ, ONCE YOU'VE FOUND THE TIME? 'ROMANS-FLEUVES' (THE TIME, SHE FLIES) ['Het Bureau'] J.J. Voskuil, 1996-2000 (7 books) Dutch 'septology' - a total of 5,500 pages -published between 1996 and 2000, about life at a research institute in Amsterdam. A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell, 1951-1975 (12 books) A rich parorama of life in England between the wars. Story of a Life Konstantin Paustovsky, 1951-1975 (6 books) Memoirs, in 6 volumes (1892-1968). ['Anton Wachter'-cyclus] S. Vestdijk, 1934-1960 (8 books) The pericles, great and small, of a growing boy with artistic tendencies. Jean Christophe Romain Rolland, 1904-1912 (10 books) This semi-autobiographical novel (10 books) follows the misadventures of Jean-Christophe Krafft, a gifted composer whose dedication to his art alienates him from society. BILDUNGSROMANS ABOUT WRITERS A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce, 1914-1915 The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest of identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of his family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a testament to the artist's "eternal imagination". [Tonio Kröger] Thomas Mann, 1903 Burgeoning talent caught between life and art. The Counterfeiters André Gide, 1926 A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France. NOVELS BY PROUSTIANS To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, 1927 This is the story of the Ramsays, based on Virginia Woolf's own family. Written in the stream-of-consciousness style, the book examines family relationships, the traditional roles of the sexes, the tensions and love between husband and wife and the resentment children can feel for their parents. Zeno's Conscience Italo Svevo, 1923 A neurotic old man looks back over his life, exploring his motives and trying to make sense of things. The Runaway Soul Harold Brodkey, 1991 Wiley Silenowicz is adopted in 1930 and raised by his cousins in St. Louis. Wiley grows up, observes his parents, suffers his sister, experiences sexual longing and then sex. In short, nothing much happens except language - Brodkey's lush, carefully observed antidote to minimalism. Rituals Cees Nooteboom, 1980 Inni Wintrop, a wealthy dilettante, meets Arnold and Philip Taads, estranged father and son, who have each adopted a unique routine to make their lives rigidly consistent. [Aan zee] Eric de Kuyper, 1988 The first of a five-part series: dreamlike recollections of a Belgian youth. |
| Within a Budding Grove 1918 | ||
| The Guermantes Way 1920-1921 | ||
| Sodom and Gomorrah 1921-1922 | ||
| The Captive 1923 | ||
| The Fugitive 1925 | ||
| Time Regained 1927 | ||
| 'In Search of Lost Time' 1913-1927 Marcel Proust's famous seven-part cycle. See also: Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, Captive, Fugitive, and Time Regained. | ||
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