Marcel Proust - Hardcover

The first biography of Proust to make use of a wealth of primary material only recently made available. With profound intelligence, analytical perspiscuity and wit, Jean-Yves Tadié gives a portrait of a great artist in his time. He provides a scrupulously researched and engaging picture of the intellectual and social universe that fed Proust's work, and also a definitive reading of the work itself. A masterful biography of one of the most significant voices of the twentieth century.

Jean-Yves Tadié is Professor of French Literature at the Sorbonne. He is the editor of the definitive Pléiade edition of A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU and the author of PROUST ET LE ROMAN, LECTURES DE PROUST and PROUST. He lives in Paris.