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100 _aLandy, Joshua
245 _aMarcel Proust: A Very Short Introduction
260 _bOxford University Press
_aOxford
_c2023
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520 _aMarcel Proust (1871-1922) was arguably France's best-known literary writer. He was the author of stories, essays, translations, and a 3,000-page novel, In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). This book is a brief guide to Proust's magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites the reader to view the novel as a single quest—a quest for purpose, enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging—through the novel's fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex desire, knowledge, self-understanding, self-fashioning, and the unconscious mind.
650 _abiography
650 _aLiterature Studies and Criticism
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