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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
How Proust can change your life How Proust can change your life Alain De Botton The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are… OL107929W
The reading of Proust The reading of Proust David Ellison xiii, 212 p OL11390734W
Proust's overcoat Proust's overcoat Lorenza Foschini "Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man,… OL16676086W
Proust's gods Proust's gods Margaret Topping viii, 244 p. : 23 cm OL18854700W
Letters to his neighbor Letters to his neighbor Marcel Proust Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-l… OL19714563W
Epistemology of the closet Epistemology of the closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati… OL2007273W
Friend and foe Friend and foe Frederick John Harris "Marcel Proust and Andre Gide precipitated the French defeat to Germany in 1940 - this according to a press campaign organized by Marshal Petain's puppet government at Vichy. Proust and Gide clearly … OL5904109W
Proust and the Sense of Time Proust and the Sense of Time Julia Kristeva Noted literary critic, psychoanalyst, and theorist Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, just delivered at the 1992 T.S. Eliot M… OL71360W