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Proust in love [electronic resource] / William C. Carter.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 252 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780300134889 (electronic bk.)
  • 0300134886 (electronic bk.)
  • 1281734691
  • 9781281734693
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Proust in love.DDC classification:
  • 843/.912 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ2631.R63 Z545486 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Promiscuous Proust -- Mighty hermaphrodite -- My heart beats only for you -- Jalousie -- A nun of speed -- Where fair strangers abound -- Lovesick -- Grieving and forgetting -- The night prowler -- The boys from the Ritz -- Love is divine.
Summary: The acclaimed Proust biographer William Carter portrays Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual, and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of "Proust in love", Carter also shows how the author's experiences became major themes in his novel "In Search of Lost Time". Carter discusses Proust's adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought with the journalist Jean Lorrain after he alluded to Proust's homosexuality in print, his flirtations with respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with young men of the servant class. With new revelations about Proust's love life and a gallery of photographs, the book provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust's gay Paris.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 821.133.1.09 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-243) and index.

Promiscuous Proust -- Mighty hermaphrodite -- My heart beats only for you -- Jalousie -- A nun of speed -- Where fair strangers abound -- Lovesick -- Grieving and forgetting -- The night prowler -- The boys from the Ritz -- Love is divine.

The acclaimed Proust biographer William Carter portrays Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual, and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of "Proust in love", Carter also shows how the author's experiences became major themes in his novel "In Search of Lost Time". Carter discusses Proust's adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought with the journalist Jean Lorrain after he alluded to Proust's homosexuality in print, his flirtations with respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with young men of the servant class. With new revelations about Proust's love life and a gallery of photographs, the book provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust's gay Paris.

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