Mirages and Mad Beliefs

Christopher Prendergast

earliest edition we have, 2013 Princeton University Press, 2013 233 pages

Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the gr...

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Mirages and Mad Beliefs edition · 2013 · Princeton University Press · 232 pages · 9780691155203
Mirages and Mad Beliefs edition · 2013 · Princeton University Press · 233 pages · 9781299195875
Mirages and Mad Beliefs edition · 2013 · Princeton University Press · 232 pages · 9781400846313

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