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FeaturesOctober 2000 Proust regained A consideration of the life and work of Marcel Proust.
This has been a good year for Proust, for seasoned Proustians as well as
aspiring readers of his masterwork, A la recherche du temps perdu. We
have two new biographies, not including Jean-Yves Tadié’s superb Marcel
Proust: A Life, hailed in France in 1996 and recently published here in
English, and we have Roger Shattuck’s Proust’s Way,
condensing into a portable volume the professor’s
useful ideas from his earlier critical works.
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All this Proustiana has brought a flood of daily reviews and commentary, amusing in what it scarcely conceals: how few people have actually read the novel. Our journalists are increasingly inclined, or seem obliged, to call A la recherche the greatest novel of the twentieth century, taking their cue perhaps from Graham Greene’s comment that “ ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 19 October 2000, on page 13 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/proust-epstein-2328
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