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Marcel Proust: A Life, with a New Preface by the Author (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity) Paperback – April 16, 2013

by William C. Carter (Author)

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Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of À la recherche du temps perdu one hundred years ago, Marcel Proust portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century.

“An impeccably researched and well-paced narrative that brings vividly and credibly to life not only the writer himself but also the changing world he knew.”—Roger Pearson, New York Times Book Review

“William C. Carter is Proust’s definitive biographer.”—Harold Bloom

Named a Notable Book of 2000 by the New York Times Book Review

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William C. Carter, professor emeritus of French at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the author of Proust in Love and a new, fully annotated edition of Proust’s classic Swann’s Way.

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Series: Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity
Paperback: 1000 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; Reissue edition (April 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780300191790
ISBN-13: 978-0300191790
ASIN: 0300191790
Product Dimensions: 6 x 2.2 x 9.5 inches
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Average Customer Review: 17 customer reviews
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Good to see it back in print

April 7, 2013

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Yale University Press deserves commendation for bringing out Carter's second edition of Marcel Proust, A Life. The second edition offers a new preface and a number of corrections to one of the three standard biographies of Proust and -- without in the least slighting Tadié or Painter's works -- likely the most readable and insightful of the three. This second edition takes advantage of Carter's research since his first edition's publication -- in particular his study Proust in Love and his editing of The Memoirs of Ernest Forssgren (Proust's valet), both brought out by YUP in 2006. It's part of YUP's tribute to Proust in this centenary year of the publication of Du coté de chez Swann (Swann's Way). The revised biography heralds the issuance this year of the first volume of the new and annotated Carter/Yale set of In Search of Lost Time, scheduled to appear over the next few years.

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The Best Proust Biography

January 25, 2014

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Some folks argue that Tadie's is the Proust bio to have, but I think Carter has the advantage of a more engaging style, as well as being as thorough factually as Tadie's. Tadie is sec, Carter is chaud.

I admit that Andre Maurois. with the advantage of being French, wrote a better biography for earlier readers than either George Barker or George Painter, Painter's book being ostensibly more complete but in fact marred by his obsession with identifying every character in RECHERCHE with a real-life acquaintance or friend of Proust.

Carter's short book PROUST IN LOVE is also a good read, though you do have the feeling he's making the most of his research.

All the bios of Proust are worth investigating if you're a Proustian, but Carter's is the one to read if you're only going to read one.

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Deborah Dorfman

VAluable Book --Kindle problems

August 22, 2014

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Marcel Proust (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Mo)
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Although sometimes drowning in detail --social, intellectual, political, cultural-- this is a reliable and valuable and on the whole readable resource.
Except for the crucial fact that you can't access the notes (and there are hundreds of them) as you read; and to match notes to text by reading all notes together is virtually undoable without taking (paper) notes. Click the note number, and you get only a definition; you don't go to the note. Frustrating, and for a serious reader or scholar, the book is almost unuseable --inferior to a book.
This is correctable I would think without additional charges.
I have other Kindle books where I can access the notes.

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Plenty of new information beautifully written.

February 9, 2018

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A most excellent bio with material not covered previously. Thoroughly enjoyable.

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June 26, 2016

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The best literary bio on Proust.

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April 26, 2015

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A very good and essential biography/

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A gift to the reader

December 13, 2013

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Others have writing about "content" of the biography (its comprehensive and detailed nature)

I'll add only that Carter has given the reader a book that presents this wealth of information in a form that is a great pleasure just to *read* in and of itself.

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roberto gigliucci

wonderful book, good service

January 28, 2013

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

I just did read another work of the same author, very interesting. I like very much the theme, Proust, and his Récherche.

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