Reading in Proust's a la Recherche: 'Le Délire de la Lecture'

by Adam A. Watt

Through close textual analysis of the scenes of reading in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Adam Watt offers an invigorating new study of the novel and previously unacknowledged paths through it. After considering key childhood 'Primal Scenes' which mark the act of reading as revelatory and potentially traumatic, the book then identifies and examines the interwoven strands of the novel's narrative of reading: showing that scenes where the narrator...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199566178
• ISBN13: 9780199566174
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"