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Lost time : lectures on Proust in a Soviet prison camp
- Title
- Lost time : lectures on Proust in a Soviet prison camp / Józef Czapski ; translated from the French by Eric Karpeles.
- Author
- Czapski, Józef, 1896-1993
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-884 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Karpeles, Eric
- Description
- xxxiv, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, 90 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "The first translation of painter and writer Jozef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, in the heart of the malevolent Soviet Union, a Polish prisoner of war brought Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu to life without a single page of text available for reference. Presenting a series of lectures in an attempt to distract his fellow officers from their collective misery, Jozef Czapski managed to revive the novel and his experience of reading it purely from memory. It was a clarifying moment for him, a Proustian moment. His talks were given in French, helping to focus the men's minds and distract their thoughts from their grim surroundings. Calling upon deep reserves of aesthetic knowledge and critical thinking in a variety of languages, Czapski offered aspects of Proust's story, like Scheherazade, night after night. His lectures are a testament to the survival of memories of both worlds woven together, the fictional Faubourg Saint-Germain and the actual Soviet prison camp"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Proust contre la déchéance. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Proust contre la déchéance.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Note
- "First published in the French language as Proust contre la decheance: conférences au camp du Griazowietz by Les Editions Noir sur Blanc"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-884
- ISBN
- 9781681372587
- 1681372584
- LCCN
- 2018024070
- 40028677969
- OCLC
- 1023103240
- Author
- Czapski, Józef, 1896-1993, author.
- Title
- Lost time : lectures on Proust in a Soviet prison camp / Józef Czapski ; translated from the French by Eric Karpeles.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Added Author
- Karpeles, Eric, writer of introduction, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Czapski, Józef, 1896-1993. Lost time. New York : New York Review Books Classics, [2018] 9781681372594 (DLC) 2018028507
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028677969
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-884