Marcel Proust | Edmund White | Biographies | Artists & Writers | eBooks
Marcel Proust
by Edmund White
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Marcel Proust Summary:
| In White's superb biography, Proust is shown in all his fascinating eccentricity--as the yearning, lonely boy, the dazzling wit, darling of Parisian salons, the seeker of fame, and the unhappy homosexual grappling with his sexual identity. |
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| Marcel Proust, now enjoying a major renaissance, has at last found a biographer who himself once produced the "finest French novel written in English" (The Nation). For Edmund White--author of an award-winning biography of Jean Genet and of the classic gay novel A Boy's Own Story, and known for his own haunting evocation of times past--this portrait is the exquisite expression of a lifetime spent contemplating Proust. Proust teaches us to truly savor the master's delicate perfection of style and his strange, charismatic personality--not just the recluse obsessively rewriting his one massive work through the night, but the yearning, lonely boy; the dazzling wit and darling of Parisian salons; the seeker of fame; and the unhappy closeted homosexual whom this book is the first to explore openly. From the frothiest gossip to the deepest angst, here is a gem to be treasured not only by literati and students, but by anyone looking for an introduction to an enduring genius. |
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