Proust's Deadline

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Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Marcel Proust’s multivolume masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu, began to appear in 1913. Over the next fifty years, it gained a reputation as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. But the novel’s classic image as a completed work was later shattered by the discovery of unpublished drafts, and the “war of the Prousts” has kept scholars arguing over its definitive form ever since.

Christine M. Cano’s Proust’s Deadline presents a concise history of the publishing and reception of À la recherche du temps perdu, and sorts out the most important issues that have arisen from the ensuing debates about the text. She ultimately shows how this quintessential “book about time” tells another story about time’s passage: the story of Proust’s mortal confrontation with the temporality of writing, publishing, and reading.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252090721
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

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Christine Cano is an associate professor of French and comparative literature at Case Western Reserve University.

Recensioner i media

"An energetic and rewarding read, Proust's Deadline offers both a publication history and a fresh approach as to how Proust and his scholars continue to confront the threats of contingency and time."--Nineteenth-Century French Studies "Fascinating."--The Gay and Lesbian Review "In this carefully researched and comprehensive book, Cano relates with admirable succinctness the story of the writing and publication of Marcel Proust's vast novel... Every Proust scholar will find Proust's Deadline a useful and engaging guide to the history of the creation and current status of A la recherche du temps perdu, as well as to its proliferating editions and translations."--H-France Review

Innehållsförteckning

Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Translations Introduction 1. Forthcoming: Announcing the Recherche 2. The Dream of Simultaneous Publication 3. Organicism Gone Awry 4. Grasset's Revenge Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index