Marcel Proust : a life /
White, Edmund, 1940-
Marcel Proust : a life / Edmund White. - New York : Penguin Books, 2000 - 986 p. : 24 cm.
"Author of a boy own story" (cover)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-165).
Roots --
Auteuil --
Illiers --
The Weil Family --
Jeanne Proust --
Adrien Proust --
Childhood --
The Curls --
The Evening Kiss --
At the Champs-Elysees --
Onanism --
The Underworld of the Swimming Pool --
The First Attack of Asthma --
Childhood Reading --
The Schoolboy --
An Unassuming Pupil --
Rhetorique --
Madame Straus --
Philosophie --
Magazines --
Summer Holidays (1889-91) --
Ostende, the Finalys --
Madame Arman de Caillavet --
Proust and France --
Military Service --
Gaston and Jeanne --
The Death of the Grandmother --
The End of National Service --
L'Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques --
Le Mensuel --
From Le Banquet to La Revue blanche --
Wilde --
Princesse Mathilde --
Bergson --
Le Banquet --
Friendships --
A Portrait --
Holidays 1892 --
Renan --
Platonic Love --
Other Friends --
Willie Heath --
Madeleine Lemaire --
The Encounter with Robert de Montesquiou --
Music --
The Genesis of Les Plaisirs et les Jours --
Saint-Moritz --
The New Term, 1893 --
How Not to Choose a Career --
Further Essays for La Revue blanche --
A Stormy Friendship --
Leon Delafosse --
Autumn at Versailles --
The Chateau de Reveillon --
Reynaldo Hahn --
Trouville, Moonlight and 'Baldassare' --
'La Confession d'une jeune fille' --
The New Term, 1894 --
The Philosophy Degree --
Alphonse Daudet --
Faure --
La Vie Parisienne --
'Portraits de Peintres' --
A Phantom Librarian --
The Pleasures of Jean Santeuil --
Kreuznach --
Saint-Germain-en-Laye --
Dieppe --
Beg-Meil --
Harrison --
Landscapes --
Reveillon.
This biography of Marcel Proust provides a picture of the intellectual and social universe that fed his art, along with a critcal reading of the work itself.
9780141002033
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Novelists, French--20th century--Biography.
B PQ 2631 / P968W 2000
843/.912
Marcel Proust : a life / Edmund White. - New York : Penguin Books, 2000 - 986 p. : 24 cm.
"Author of a boy own story" (cover)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-165).
Roots --
Auteuil --
Illiers --
The Weil Family --
Jeanne Proust --
Adrien Proust --
Childhood --
The Curls --
The Evening Kiss --
At the Champs-Elysees --
Onanism --
The Underworld of the Swimming Pool --
The First Attack of Asthma --
Childhood Reading --
The Schoolboy --
An Unassuming Pupil --
Rhetorique --
Madame Straus --
Philosophie --
Magazines --
Summer Holidays (1889-91) --
Ostende, the Finalys --
Madame Arman de Caillavet --
Proust and France --
Military Service --
Gaston and Jeanne --
The Death of the Grandmother --
The End of National Service --
L'Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques --
Le Mensuel --
From Le Banquet to La Revue blanche --
Wilde --
Princesse Mathilde --
Bergson --
Le Banquet --
Friendships --
A Portrait --
Holidays 1892 --
Renan --
Platonic Love --
Other Friends --
Willie Heath --
Madeleine Lemaire --
The Encounter with Robert de Montesquiou --
Music --
The Genesis of Les Plaisirs et les Jours --
Saint-Moritz --
The New Term, 1893 --
How Not to Choose a Career --
Further Essays for La Revue blanche --
A Stormy Friendship --
Leon Delafosse --
Autumn at Versailles --
The Chateau de Reveillon --
Reynaldo Hahn --
Trouville, Moonlight and 'Baldassare' --
'La Confession d'une jeune fille' --
The New Term, 1894 --
The Philosophy Degree --
Alphonse Daudet --
Faure --
La Vie Parisienne --
'Portraits de Peintres' --
A Phantom Librarian --
The Pleasures of Jean Santeuil --
Kreuznach --
Saint-Germain-en-Laye --
Dieppe --
Beg-Meil --
Harrison --
Landscapes --
Reveillon.
This biography of Marcel Proust provides a picture of the intellectual and social universe that fed his art, along with a critcal reading of the work itself.
9780141002033
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Novelists, French--20th century--Biography.
B PQ 2631 / P968W 2000
843/.912