Proust's Way · A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time Paperback - August 17, 2001

For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece, and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way , the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.