Proust And Venice
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Proust And Venice
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Author : Peter Collier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1989-10-26
Proust And Venice written by Peter Collier and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-10-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study of Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) focuses on Venice, one of the hero's central obsessions, and shows how a whole network of allusions to art (from Titian to Turner, from Byzantine mosaic to Fortuny dresses) ties in with the hero's quest for self-knowledge and self-fulfilment.
Venice For Lovers
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Author : Louis Begley
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2009-11-20
Venice For Lovers written by Louis Begley and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-20 with Travel categories.
With an unforgettable novella and brilliant essays, a writing couple delivers “a love letter to an ancient Italian city by the sea” (The Washington Post). Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends with restaurateurs has been an unsurpassed means of getting to know the city and its inhabitants, far from the tourists in San Marco Square. In his short novella, Begley writes a story of falling in love with and in Venice. His twenty-year-old protagonist, enamored with an older, far worldlier woman of twenty-seven, is lured by her to the City of Water, only to be unceremoniously dumped and left to fend for himself after a brief rendezvous. But he discovers a lasting love for Venice itself not an uncommon romance, as Begley’s brilliant literary essay on the city’s place within world literature demonstrates: Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann were all illustrious predecessors. “Refreshing and delightful. Begley and Muhlstein manage to combine in one volume the innocent ardor of a first-time visitor and the seasoned appreciation of longtime lovers.” —Don George, National Geographic Traveler
Venice Desired
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Author : Tony Tanner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1992
Venice Desired written by Tony Tanner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
If there is one city that might be said to embody both reason and desire, it would surely be Venice: a thousand-year triumph of rational legislation, aesthetic and sensual self-expression, and self-creation--powerful, lovely, serene. Unique in so many ways, Venice is also unique in its relation to writing. London has Dickens, Paris has Balzac, Saint Petersburg has Dostoevsky, Dublin has Joyce, but there is simply no comparable writer for, or out of, Venice. Venice effectively disappeared from history altogether in 1797 after its defeat by Napoleon. From then on, it seemed to exist as a curiously marooned spectacle. Literally marooned--the city mysteriously growing out of the sea, the beautiful stone impossibly floating on water--but temporally marooned as well, stagnating outside history. Yet as spectacle, as the beautiful city par excellence, the city of art, the city as art and as spectacular example, as the greatest and richest republic in the history of the world, now declined and fallen, Venice became an important site for the European imagination. Watery, dark, silent, a place of sensuality and secrecy; of masks and masquerading; of an always possibly treacherous beauty; of Desdemona and Iago, Shylock, Volpone; of conspiracy and courtesans in Otway; an obvious setting for many Gothic novels--Venice is not written from the inside but variously appropriated from without. Venice--the place, the name, the dream--seems to lend itself to a whole variety of appreciations, recuperations, and and hallucinations. In decay and decline, yet saturated with secret sexuality--suggesting a heady compound of death and desire--Venice becomes for many writers what is was for Byron: both "the greenest island of my imagination" and a "sea-sodom." It also, as this book tries to show, plays a crucial role in the development of modern writing. Tanner skillfully lays before us the many ways in which this dreamlike city has been summoned up, depicted, dramatized--then rediscovered or transfigured in selected writings through the years.
The Stones Of Venice
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Author : John Ruskin
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Release Date : 2013
The Stones Of Venice written by John Ruskin and has been published by Cosimo Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.
"More than simply a survey of an ancient city's most significant buildings, The Stones of Venice, first published in three volumes between 1851 and 1853, is an expression of a philosophy of art, nature, and morality that goes beyond art history, and has inspired such thinkers as Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Mahatma Gandhi. Unabridged, and containing Ruskin's original drawings, this guide to the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic implications of architecture will be appreciated by students and scholars alike. The preeminent art critic of his time, British writerJOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) had a profound influence upon European painting, architecture, and aesthetics of the 19th and 20th centuries. His immense body of literary works include Modern Painters, Volume I-IV (1843-1856); The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849); Unto This Last (1862); Munera Pulveris (1862-3); The Crown of Wild Olive (1866); Time and Tide (1867); and Fors Clavigera (1871-84).
A Reader S Guide To Proust S In Search Of Lost Time
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Author : David Ellison
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-18
A Reader S Guide To Proust S In Search Of Lost Time written by David Ellison and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' (In Search of Lost Time) is many things at once: a novel of education, a portrait of French society during the Third Republic, a masterful psychological analysis of love, a reflection on homosexuality, an essay in moral and aesthetic theory, and, above all, one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. This Reader's Guide analyses each volume of the 'Recherche' in order and in detail. Without jargon or technical language, David Ellison leads the reader through the work, clarifying but not oversimplifying the intricate beauty of Proust's imaginary universe. Focused both on large themes and on narrative and stylistic particularities, Ellison's readings expand our understanding and appreciation of the work and provide tools for the further study of Proust. All French quotations are translated, making this an ideal guide for students of comparative literature as well as of French.
The Cambridge Introduction To Marcel Proust
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Author : Adam Watt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-07
The Cambridge Introduction To Marcel Proust written by Adam Watt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.
In Search Of Venice
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Author : Paul Morand
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2013
In Search Of Venice written by Paul Morand and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Venice (Italy) categories.
The best of Pushkin Press on the iconic city.
Marcel Proust
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Author : Marcel Proust
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Marcel Proust written by Marcel Proust and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with French literature categories.
Proust And The Arts
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Author : Christie McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-05
Proust And The Arts written by Christie McDonald and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Art categories.
Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras.
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 6
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Author : Marcel Proust
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-10-31
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 6 written by Marcel Proust and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-31 with Fiction categories.
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION Time Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life. This edition includes the indispensable A Guide to Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmartin.