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Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust's combination of solitary genius and passionate observance of social custom has made him an object of fascination to generations of readers enthralled by his great masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. In this vivid and concise biography, Mary Ann Caws, the acclaimed author of Virginia Woolf, succinctly and vividly explores the details of Proust's life, from h...more
Paperback, 118 pages
Published March 29th 2005 by Overlook Press
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cool... a little book, with photos on nearly every page with gossipy facts about the strange life of a strange man... going out for sherbet at 4am at his favorite restaurant, where they always kept a small room for him at the 84 degrees F that he required... then to sleep, as he did everyday, from 8am to 4pm...

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Marcel Proust (Overlook Illustrated Lives)
Marcel Proust (Overlook Illustrated Lives Series)
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Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, art historian and literary critic

She is currently a Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. She wor...more
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