Proust
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Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work, was written in 1931. It is a brilliant work of critical insight that also tells us much about its author's own thinking and preoccupations. In its own right it is a masterpiece of literary and philosophical creative writing. This edition was published in 1999 - ten years after the writer's death. The volume also contains the equally celebrated dialogues with the art critic Georges Duthuit - written to record their different points of view after the discussions took place. Beckett always let Duthuit win, but his very unusual and often opposite point of view on the nature and purpose of art is all the more forceful and memorable on that account.
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Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time Shares proust, literary criticism, nonfiction -
Monsieur Proust's Library Shares proust, literary criticism, nonfiction -
Marcel Proust: A Life Shares proust, nonfiction, criticism -
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past Shares proust, literary criticism, nonfiction
