Proustian Uncertainties

Proustian Uncertainties
Saul Friedlander
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3 Dec 2020 US
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9781590519110
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In this engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time, Saul Friedl nder considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust himself, and what the significance is of these various points of commonality and divergence. We know, for example, that the author did not hide his homosexuality, but the narrator did. Why the difference? We know that the narrator tried to marginalize his part-Jewish background. Does this reflect the author' s position, and how does the narrator handle what he tries, but does not manage, to dismiss? These are major questions raised by the text and reflected in the text, to which the author' s life doesn' t give obvious answers. The narrator' s reflections on time, on death, on memory, and on love are as many paths leading to the image of self that he projects. In Proustian Uncertainties, Friedl nder draws on his personal experience from a life spent investigating the ties between history and memory to offer a fresh perspective on the seminal work.
"[A] thought-provoking examination. . . [Friedlander] is a wise, enthusiastic guide to Proust. " --Kirkus Reviews"[Friedlander] meditates on the ' extraordinary pull' and hidden depths of Marcel Proust' s A la recherche du temps perdu in this intriguing extended essay. . . Proust fans will enjoy these appreciative, personal peregrinations through ' one of the most important novels ever written. ' " --Publishers Weekly"[A] personal and idiosyncratic reading of Marcel Proust' s In Search of Lost Time. . . impressive and will certainly draw in a curious literary readership. " --Library Journal"Saul Friedlander, whose work on memory has played a critical role in filling in the lacunae of recorded history, has turned his lens on the uses of memory in Proust' s extraordinary record of time in books that remain timeless. " --Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital WorldPraise for Saul Friedlander: "Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes. " --New York Review of Books "[Friedlander' s] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness. . . Friedlander succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure. " --New York Times Book Review "[Friedlander' s] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express. " --The Guardian
Saul Friedl nder is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history (emeritus) at UCLA. He was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews, grew up in France, and lived in hiding during the German occupation of 1940-1944. His historical works have received great praise and recognition, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Years of Extermination- Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.
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ISBN-13: 9781590519110
Published: 3 Dec 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Publisher: Other Press LLC
Format: Hardback
Height: 209mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 176

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