Marcel Proust: A Life, with a New Preface by the Author PDF
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HENRY MCBRIDE SERIES IN MODERNISM AND MODERNITY The artistic movement known as modernism, which includes the historical avant-garde, produced the most radical and comprehensive change in Western culture since Romanticism. Its effects reverberated through all the arts, permanently altering their formal repertories and their relations with society at large, and its products still surround us in our workplaces and homes. Although modernism produced a pervasive cultural upheaval, it can never be assessed as an artistic movement alone: its contours took shape against the background of social, political, and intellectual change, and it was always bound up with large questions of modernity and modernization and with the intellectual challenge of sifting their meanings. Henry McBride (1867-1962) became perhaps the leading American critic of his time to write perceptively and engagingly on modern art. The Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity, which focuses on modernism and the arts in their many contexts, is respectfully dedicated to his memory. Editorial Committee Lawrence Rainey, University of York, General Editor Ronald Bush, Oxford University Arthur Danto, Columbia University Charles Harrison, Open University Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University Richard Taruskin, University of California, Berkeley Robert Wohl, University of California, Los Angeles Marcel Proust A L I FE With a New Preface by the Author William C. Carter Yale University Press c^> New Haven and London This book has been published with assistance from the fund for the Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity established by Maximilian Miltzlaff. Copyright © 2000 by Yale University. Preface to the 2013 edition copyright © 2013 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-mail [email protected] (U.S. office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Designed by Rebecca Gibb. Set in Minion type by Keystone Typesetting, Inc., Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Control Number: 2012951856 ISBN 978-0-300-19179-0 (pbk.) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 987654321 For Lynn, my love This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface to the 2013 Edition xi Preface xv PART i Petit Marcel (1870-1889) i Secret Places of the Heart 3 2 A Sentimental Education 38 PART ii Vanity Fair (1889-1895) 3 Private Proust 101 4 A Modest Literary Debut nj 5 A Man About Town 144 6 A Musical Prodigy 165 v i i i CONTENTS PART in A Man of Letters (1895-1899) 7 Pleasures and Days 203 8 The Duelists 232 9 Am I a Novelist? 258 PART iv A Voluntary Servitude (1900-1906) 10 Ruskin and Certain Cathedrals 289 n His Blue Eyes 309 12 Self-Hypnosis 324 13 A Happy Man 341 14 Broken Promises 359 15 The Only Honey of My Life 385 PART v The Beginning of Freedom (1907-1912) 16 Filial Sentiments of a Parricide 417 17 The Notebook of 1908 441 18 Against Sainte-Beuve 463 19 Gathering Impressions 487 20 In Search of a Publisher 507 PART vi Love and War (1913-1918) 21 Proust's Way 531 22 Annus Horribilis 562 23 Shattered Hearts 583 24 A Fortuny Gown 613 25 Proust of the Ritz 632 26 A Walk in the Snow 653 Contents ix PART vii The Fountain of Youth (1919-1922) 27 Homeless 683 28 The Idea of Death 717 29 I Am Finishing a Great Task 740 30 The End of Time 768 Notes 811 Index 923 Illustrations follow pages 206 and 558
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