Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

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 matchless companion. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers an eminently useful and readable guidebook to Proust's epic work, presenting Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were fully matched by his irrepressible comic sense. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Proust's Way will serve as the next generation's guide to the book that many consider the undisputed masterpiece of the twentieth-century novel. Book jacket.