Proust Among the Stars: How To Read Him; Why Read Him? - Softcover

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Malcolm Bowie is Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America, and an Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. His books include Mallarme and the Art of Being Difficult; Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction; Lacan; and Proust among the Stars, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1999 and won the 2001 Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism.

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This is a matchless close reading of a literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and a lesson in how to read the Great Books profitably and pleasurably.

A book that recalls that Proust’s novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the world’s literature; and that its originality lies first in the quality of Proust’s textual invention, page after page, line after line. Art, death, sex, politics, loss, guilt, morality – all Proust’s major themes are here in all their glory, but revealed close up.

“Read this excellent book”
Stuart Jeffries, 'Guardian'

“Very refreshing… a splendidly tough-minded and generous introduction”
Gabriel Josipovici, 'Independent '

“Brilliant”
Peter Conrad, 'Observer'

“A splendidly thought-filled book”
Eric Griffiths, 'Evening Standard'