Prousts Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time

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