Monsieur Proust's library
/ Anka Muhlstein
- New York : Other Press , c2012.
- xiv, 141 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
In this wonderfully entertaining book, the author of "Balzac's Omelette" draws out themes in Marcel Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous "In Search of Lost Time, " but also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.