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Anka Muhlstein

Monsieur Proust's Library

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Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems 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. In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein, the author of Balzac's Omelette, draws out these themes in Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Sea… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-59051-567-9
  • EAN: 9781590515679
  • Produktnummer: 15735476
  • Verlag: Other Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'808 KB

Über den Autor


Anka Muhlstein was born in Paris in 1935. Muhlstein has published biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, Cavelier de La Salle, and Astolphe de Custine; studies on Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria; a double biography, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart; and most recently, Balzac's Omelette (Other Press). She has won two prizes from the Académie française and the Goncourt Prize for Biography. She and her husband, Louis Begley, have written a book on Venice, Venice for Lovers. They live in New York City.

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