Proust S Overcoat
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Proust S Overcoat
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Author : Lorenza Foschini
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2011-11-03
Proust S Overcoat written by Lorenza Foschini and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Gurin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Gurin immediately glimpsed the possibility of acquiring the novelist's personal effects, but it would be decades before he finally came to possess the relic he had most coveted: Proust's moth-eaten otter-lined overcoat...
Marcel Proust In Context
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Author : Adam Watt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-05
Marcel Proust In Context 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 2013-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.
Proust S In Search Of Lost Time
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Author : Katherine Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-09
Proust S In Search Of Lost Time written by Katherine Elkins and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-09 with Philosophy in literature categories.
"Unlike most fiction writers, Proust was trained in philosophy. In fact, he even considered writing a philosophical treatise instead of the novel we know so well. This hesitation about what form his writing should take still haunts his final choice of a novel, which is both philosophical, and yet, not philosophy. Take your pick of philosophers, from Plato to Nietzsche, and you can easily find an essay or even a book arguing that this particular philosopher most applies to Proust. But as one plunges into the narrative that he finally wrote, one is struck by the fact that In Search of Lost Time feels nothing like what we often call a philosophical novel, or even, a novel of ideas. Instead, philosophical reflection lies in the shadows of his fictional world, a sort of parallel life that can be found in the underweave"--
Cultural Passions
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Author : Elizabeth Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-06-30
Cultural Passions written by Elizabeth Wilson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-30 with Art categories.
Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics. In "Cultural Passions" she transcends the division between 'high' and 'low' culture, exploring the emotional commitment people bring to the books, performances, objects and rituals in which they find meaning and challenging an enduring suspicion of the pleasure of the aesthetic. Ranging from Marcel Proust to tarot readings, from urban planning to interiors, Elizabeth Wilson investigates an underlying Puritanism in critical commentary on matters as wide ranging as Roger Federer and C S Lewis, Surrealism and fashion and the relationship of religion to fan culture. She questions why pleasure appears suspect, even as consumer society incites it and turns life into entertainment. She questions why there is such fear of elitism when at the same time the fans of mass culture are held in contempt. Subverting conventional views, her oblique point of view provides startling insights on both familiar and marginal cultural experiences.
Beckett S Art Of Salvage
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Author : Julie Bates
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-19
Beckett S Art Of Salvage written by Julie Bates 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 2017-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Introduction: Miscellaneous Rubbish -- Relics -- Heirlooms -- Props -- Treasure -- Conclusion
Almost Nothing The 20th Century Art And Life Of J Zef Czapski
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Author : Eric Karpeles
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2018-11-06
Almost Nothing The 20th Century Art And Life Of J Zef Czapski written by Eric Karpeles and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin’s sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski’s full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.
Unfolding The Past
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Author : Elizabeth Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-04-07
Unfolding The Past written by Elizabeth Wilson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-07 with Social Science categories.
Elizabeth Wilson is a pioneer of fashion studies, yet she never intended to become an academic. Starting her literary career as a feminist activist writing for the underground press, she went on to explore tennis, 'bohemians' and of course fashion – her obsession – along with forays into fiction. Throughout, she has never seen her work as abstract or disengaged from 'real life'. In her memoir, she traces this relationship between personal experience and her writing, revisiting pivotal moments from childhood, adolescence and adult life to explore her belief that research, by its nature, is always a form of autobiography. She unfolds the garment of her life in a wide-ranging exploration of scenes from her past: her difficult relationship with her mother, fashion in the 60s and gay liberation. In this journey through time she shows how experiences are inseparable from the way we seek to explain and understand them, offering a unique and deeply personal account of her – and our – cultural world.
Genius Anxiety
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Author : Norman Lebrecht
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2019-12-03
Genius Anxiety written by Norman Lebrecht and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847, the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world’s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why? Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is “an urgent and moving history” (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
Photojournalism And The Origins Of The French Writer House Museum 1881 1914
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Author : Elizabeth Emery
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Photojournalism And The Origins Of The French Writer House Museum 1881 1914 written by Elizabeth Emery and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
Why did writers' private homes become so linked to their work that contemporaries began preserving them as museums? Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum addresses this and other questions by providing an overview of the social forces that brought writers' homes to the forefront of the French imagination at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This study analyzes representations of the apartments and houses of Corneille, Hugo, Balzac, Dumas, Sand, Zola, Loti, Montesquiou, Mallarm?and Proust, among others, arguing that the writer's home became a contested space and an important part of the French patrimony at this time. This is the first book to emphasize the house museum as an essentially modern construct, and to trace the history of ideas leading to its institutionalization in twentieth-century France. The interdisciplinary study also brings new attention to the importance of photojournalism for fin-de-si?e France - and brings to light fascinating and forgotten examples of 'at home' photography by Dornac and Henri Mairet. Elizabeth Emery provides a fresh and compelling perspective on conjunctions between visual, literary, and material cultures.
My Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers
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Author : Jenn Shapland
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-02-25
My Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers written by Jenn Shapland and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'Fascinating and intimate' OBSERVER 'Lucid, distilled, honest' MAGGIE NELSON 'Gorgeous, symphonic, tender' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America's most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory and love. Interweaving her own story with McCullers', Shapland shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are. 'A moving record of love at the margins' NEW YORKER 'A call to arms to reappraise past lives' THE TIMES