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Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time opens with one of the most famous scenes in literature as young Marcel unable to fall asleep waits anxiously for his mother to come to his bedroom and kiss him good night Prousts own mother is central to the meaning of his masterpiece and she has always held a special role in literary history both as a character and as a decisive influence on the great writers career Without knowing much about her we think of her as the quintessential writers motherNow Evelyne BlochDanos touching biography acquaints Proust fans with the real Jeanne Weil Proust Written with the imaginative force of a novel but firmly grounded in Jeanne and Marcel Prousts writings Madame Proust skillfully captures the life and times of Prousts mother from her GermanJewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocers son to her lifelong worries about her sons sexuality health problems and talent As well as offering intimate glimpses of the Prousts daily life Madame Proust also uses the family as a way to explore the larger culture of findesiècle France including high society spa culture Jewish assimilation and the Dreyfus affair Throughout BlochDano offers sensitive readings of Prousts work drawing out the countless interconnections between his mother his life and his magnum opusThose coming to In Search of Lost Time for the first time will find in Madame Proust a delightful primer on Marcel Prousts life and times For those already steeped in the pleasures of Proust this gem of a biography will give them a fresh understanding of the rich fascinating background of the writer and his art
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Presents the definitive Proust biography detailing the troubled writers childhood relationships love affairs with women and men and prodigious literary career
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Drawing on newly available papers and letters this biography shows how Prousts experiences were transformed into art deftly tracing his love for his mother his social climbing and his love affairs
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In terms of practical accomplishments helping to better the lives of people today Madame Marie Curie far exceeds the achievements of any other modern or scientific person Anybody who is in a hospital that uses an XRay machine is using technology developed by Marie Curie Any cancer patient who is undergoing radiation treatment to prolong life is using a procedure discovered by Marie Curie Anybody who turns on a light bulb in their house is likely using power from a nuclear power plant based on discoveries made by Marie Curie The list of discoveries made by Marie Curie goes on and on not the least of which it was the discoveries of Marie Curie of nuclear fission that made the Atomic Bomb and other nuclear weapons possible Yet except for a few academics and watchers of The Discovery Channel the name of Marie Curie is largely unknown Ask a hundred men on the street if they know who Marie Curie is or was not more than one of them will have ever heard her If you ask the same group if they have ever heard of Albert Einstein all of them will have heard of him Yet Albert Einstein was only concerned with theoretical physics and his own theories None of his discoveries have yet been proven or confirmed None have been made into a machine like the common XRay Machine now seen in all major hospitals Marie Curie suffered from a form of discrimination experienced by almost all women of academic accomplishment Her discoveries were not taken seriously or were often credited to some man in her background Always it was assumed that the real work was done by some man and that the woman was just a wall flower
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Giacomo Puccinis operanbspMadame Butterflynbsphas enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904 It has also inspired a globallevel debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera ChoChosan was based on a reallife modelnbspStarcrossednbsplooks at this controversy and presents compelling evidence that in fact there was no real life ChoChosan Nonetheless the author demonstrates that despite the cultural disparities evoked by the opera and the clash of values embodied in it there lie buried in the history of Nagasaki many untold tales of true international romance and cooperationNagasaki the setting for the opera holds many of the answers to the international identity debate however the city has remained virtually silent in the matter in large part argues BurkeGaffney because the story of Madame Butterfly is locally viewed as a Western romance with values alien to many JapanesePenetrating beyond consideration of Madame Butterfly as a work of artnbspStarcrossednbspexplores the literature from which the opera springs including a wide variety of primary sources in both Japanese and Western languages Drawing on these insights BurkeGaffney presents the opera as a window on Japans changing relationship with Europe and America from the seventeenth century through the post World War II occupationFinallynbspStarcrossednbsplooks at the sites in Nagasaki which were related to the development of Madame Butterfly and presents an engaging display of illustrations and photographs from the past hundred years
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Giacomo Puccinis operanbspMadame Butterflynbsphas enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904 It has also inspired a globallevel debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera ChoChosan was based on a reallife modelnbspStarcrossednbsplooks at this controversy and presents compelling evidence that in fact there was no real life ChoChosan Nonetheless the author demonstrates that despite the cultural disparities evoked by the opera and the clash of values embodied in it there lie buried in the history of Nagasaki many untold tales of true international romance and cooperationNagasaki the setting for the opera holds many of the answers to the international identity debate however the city has remained virtually silent in the matter in large part argues BurkeGaffney because the story of Madame Butterfly is locally viewed as a Western romance with values alien to many JapanesePenetrating beyond consideration of Madame Butterfly as a work of artnbspStarcrossednbspexplores the literature from which the opera springs including a wide variety of primary sources in both Japanese and Western languages Drawing on these insights BurkeGaffney presents the opera as a window on Japans changing relationship with Europe and America from the seventeenth century through the post World War II occupationFinallynbspStarcrossednbsplooks at the sites in Nagasaki which were related to the development of Madame Butterfly and presents an engaging display of illustrations and photographs from the past hundred years
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An affectionate intimate biography by Madame Helena Rubinsteins personal assistant that captures Madames unbounded energy and spunk such as her buying carloads of African sculpture or kicking an inatteneive employee in the ankle to make him listen keeping her competitors at bay and dispensing homely advice particularly on beauty Rubinsteins propensity for crisis strife and inevitably farce make this irreverent but affectionate biography the purset diversion and just a fun read
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This volume sets Marcel Prousts masterwork Á la recherche du temps perdu In Search of Lost Time 191327 in its cultural and sociohistorical contexts Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Prousts biography his huge correspondence and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece Light is cast on Prousts relation to thinkers and artists of his time and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part There is vivid exploration of Prousts reading his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues his relation to journalism religion sexuality science and travel and how these figure in the Recherche The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Prousts critical reception from reviews during his lifetime to the present day including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth and twentyfirstcentury culture
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A long overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentiethcentury England I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time may give to Sydney and Violet Schiff the place which is their due T S Eliot in a letter appended to Violet Schiffs obituary Times of London July 9 1962 Largely forgotten today Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous almost Zeliglike figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable and their extensive correspondence with T S Eliot Katherine Mansfield Proust and many others strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality Leading critics of the day considered Sydney writing as Stephen Hudson to be in the same literary league as Joyce Eliot and D H Lawrence As for Violet she was a talented musician who nurtured Sydneys literary efforts and was among the first in England to recognize Prousts genius and spread the word Sydney and Violet tells the story of how the Schiffs despite their commercial and Jewish origins won acceptance in the snobbish antiSemitic literary world of early twentiethcentury England and brings to life a full panoply of extravagant personalities Proust Joyce Picasso Mansfield Wyndham Lewis T S Eliot Aldous Huxley and many more A highly personal anecdotefilled account of the social and intellectual history of the Modernist movement Sydney and Violet also examines what divides the literary survivors from the victims of taste and time
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This is the first comprehensive biography of Marcel Proust since George Painters biography was published in 1959 Like Prousts masterpiece A la recherche du temps perdu the biography is structured as the story of the writers slow and at times excruciatingly painful search for a vocation Proust emerges from Carters narrative as an extremely complicated difficult and brilliant man Carter goes into some detail to elucidate Prousts curious sexual identity from his intense and often histrionic relationships with his male friends to his quasipathological attachment to his mother to the bizarre sexual fetishes that emerged in his visits to Parisian brothels But the biography focuses firmly on Prousts development as an artist the distracted years as a dilettantish member of Parisian highsociety the dabbling in journalism and translation and finally his emergence as one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century This is a full rich deep and all encompassing biography of one of the great writers in the world It is also an elucidating cultural history of the times in which he lived
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If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past it is Edmund White himself an award winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive work through the night but also the darling of Parisian salons the grasper after honors and the closeted homosexuala subject this book is the first to explore openly From the frothiest gossip to the deepest angst here is a moving portrait to be treasured by anyone looking for an introduction to this literary icon
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This volume sets Marcel Prousts masterwork Á la recherche du temps perdu In Search of Lost Time 191327 in its cultural and sociohistorical contexts Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Prousts biography his huge correspondence and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece Light is cast on Prousts relation to thinkers and artists of his time and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part There is vivid exploration of Prousts reading his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues his relation to journalism religion sexuality science and travel and how these figure in the Recherche The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Prousts critical reception from reviews during his lifetime to the present day including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth and twentyfirstcentury culture
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Marcel Proust 18711922 was one of the great geniuses of modern literature Born in Auteil to wealthy bourgeois parents he suffered delicate health as a child During his high school years he began to frequent salons such as that of Madame Arman a friend of Anatole France Troubled by asthma and neuroses as well as by the deaths of his parents Proust increasingly withdrew from the outer world and after 1907 lived mainly in a corklined room working at night on his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu Remembrance of Things PastThe World of Proust as seen by Paul Nadar offers an intimate stroll through the society on which Prousts novel is based The heart of the book consists of photographs found in the archive of Paul Nadar These photographs make up a portrait gallery of Prousts friends and familyas well as of the aristocrats artists bourgeoisie actresses and tarts who inhabit the novel Included are portraits of Sarah Bernhardt Jean Cocteau Alphonse Daudet Claude Debussy Stéphane Mallarmé Claude Monet and Emile Zola Each photograph is accompanied by a detailed caption describing the subject and the character in the novel modeled on that personPaul Nadar 18561939 the son of Nadar was part of the famous Nadar atelier He took over his fathers business and founded the journal Paris Photographe in 1891
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This literary biography of Marcel Proust provides readers with an insight into the recluse who lay all night long in his corklined room obsessively rewriting his one massive work It also shows the yearning lonely boy the brilliant wit and the miserably closeted homosexual
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A literary event one of the most celebrated novels ever written in a magnificent new translation Seven years ago the incomparable Lydia Davis brought us an awardwinning rapturously reviewed new translation of Marcel ProustsnbspSwanns Waynbspthat was hailed as clear and true to the music of the original Los Angeles Times and a work of creation in its own right Claire MessudnbspNewsday Now she turns her gifts to the book that defined the novel as an art formnbsp When Emma Rouault marries dull provincial doctor Charles Bovary her dreams of an elegant and passionate life crumble She escapes into sentimental novels but finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days Motherhood proves to be a burden religion is only a brief distraction She spends lavishly and embarks on a series of disappointing affairs Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter When published in 1857nbspMadame Bovarynbspwas embraced by bourgeois women who claimed it spoke to the frustrations of their lives Daviss landmark translation gives new life in English to Flauberts masterwork
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