Product Description
by Marcel Proust (Author), Sylvia Townsend Warner (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Introduction by)
Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past
Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve, " this surprising and stimulating critical collection presents Proust's views on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting and painters, and on such literary masters of the nineteenth century as Tolstoy, Goethe, and Stendhal."The whole volume is an impassioned plea by Proust himself . . . it will enlighten readers of Remembrance of Things Past."--New York Times Book Review
Author Biography
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a translator, novelist, and short-story writer.
Terence Kilmartin revised C. K. Moncrieff's translation of A la recherche du temps perdu.
Number of Pages: 420
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.16 x 5.53 IN
Publication Date: April 25, 2007
