Marcel Proust in Context

By: Adam Watt

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Synopsis: This volume sets Marcel Proust s masterwork, A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913 27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust s biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust s relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid exploration of Proust s reading; his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues; his relation to journalism, religion, sexuality, science and travel, and how these figure in the Recherche. The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Proust s critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.