| Title | : | Marcel Proust (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Edmund White |
| Release | : | 1999-07-13 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs |
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| 1 | Marcel Proust (Unabridged) | Edmund White |
| Considered one of the greatest—and most influential—writers of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust was also one of its most fascinating figures. A strange, reclusive genius who often lay in bed for days at a time obsessively rewriting his masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, Proust was at other times a tireless socialite, attending the grandest parties and dazzling guests with his vivacity and wit. But as a boy Proust was yearning and lonely, an ambitious grasper after honors, and a miserably closeted homosexual, an aspect of his life that this book explores frankly and perceptively. “White has a novelist’s eye for the telling detail or the remarkable phrase.”—New York Times Book Review |
