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.