In Search of Vinteuil: Music, Literature and a Self Regained

by James Holden

Positioning himself as autobiographer, literary critic and pianist, James Holden presents an homage to Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). "One night I came across the recording of a piano work that I had composed whilst still at school. The strange thing was, I had no recollection of it whatsoever. As I sat and listened to it, it revealed to me, or so it seemed, a self that I had no connection with and a past that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845193202
• ISBN13: 9781845193201
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"