Marcel Proust : a life / Edmund White.

By:

White, Edmund, 1940-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2000Description: 986 p. : 24 cmISBN:

9780141002033

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

843/.912

LOC classification:

B PQ 2631 P968W 2000

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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"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.

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