Landy, Joshua (Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University)

Marcel Proust: A Very Short Introduction - Very Short Introductions Landy, Joshua (Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University)

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was arguably France's best-known literary writer. He wrote stories, essays, translations, and a 3,000-page novel, In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). This book is a brief guide to Proust's magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites the reader to view the novel as a single quest--a quest for purpose, enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging--through the novel's fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex desire, knowledge, self-understanding, self-fashioning, and the unconscious mind.