Proust's Way

<p>For any reader who has been humbled by the language the density or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors praises some translations and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.</p>