Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic

by Christopher Prendergast

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 grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691155208
• ISBN13: 9780691155203
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"