Marcel Proust. A Biography

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: PIMLICO
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: Reprint

Description: 445 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: One of the great English biographies of all time. Raymond Mortimer.No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. Raymond Mortimer. Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. Anthony Powell. Brilliant and scholarly. . . . Mr Painters greatest triumph is in his depiction of place and people, his revelation of the raw material of the novel. Angus Wilson. With A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU Marcel Proust achieved a perfect rendering of life in art, of the past created through memory. It is both a portrait of the artist and a discovery of the aesthetic by which the portrait is painted, and it was to have a seminal influence on twentieth-century literature. George Painters work has brilliantly captured the life of the great writer in a TOUR DE FORCE of scholarly research and literary craft.

ISBN: 9780712674799