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Monsieur Proust's library / Anka Muhlstein.
- Title
- Monsieur Proust's library / Anka Muhlstein.
- Author
- Muhlstein, Anka.
- Publication
- New York : Other Press, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PQ2631.R63 Z78925 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 141 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometime seems that he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels. ..."--Book jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- First impressions and lasting influences -- Foreign incursions -- Good readers and bad readers -- A homosexual reader: Baron de Charlus -- Racine: a second language -- The Goncourts -- Bergotte: the writer in the novel.
- ISBN
- 9781590515662 (hc. : acid-free paper)
- 1590515668 (hc. : acid-free paper)
- 9781590515679 (ebook)
- 1590515676 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2012021629
- OCLC
- 777660045
- SCSB-11854961
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library