What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk

by Michael Lucey

Book Overview

Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socio-culturally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226816672
• ISBN13: 9780226816678
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"