{"product_id":"marcel-proust-adam-watt-9781780230948","title":"Marcel Proust","description":"Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent fourteen years creating \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e, his seven-volume magnum opus. He died when it was only half in print, unable to see it become one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. Over eighty years later, the work still garners extraordinary levels of critical attention, and Proust's habits, health, and sexual preferences still keep commentators and fans occupied. In this concise biography, Adam Watt explores the life of a writer whose every experience was stored, dissected, and redeployed within a vast fictional work. After considering Proust's earlier years of personal and aesthetic experiment, Watt provides an engaging account of two intertwined processes taking place against the vibrant backdrop of Belle  poque Paris and World War I: the progress of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e and the simultaneous decline of its author. He demonstrates how Proust's own periods of ill health and isolation reflected his narrator's thoughts on desire, love, and loss, as well as his contemplation of beauty, memory, aging, and the possibility of happiness. Drawing on the author's immense correspondence, the accounts of his contemporaries, and the insights of recent scholarship, \u003ci\u003eMarcel Proust\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rewarding new portrait of the novelist once described as \"the most complicated man in Paris.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Watt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 178023094X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780230948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Adam Watt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937961607423,"sku":"9781780230948","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7195b6cd-0989-42f9-9059-1e976effe1f1.jpg?v=1681432925","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marcel-proust-adam-watt-9781780230948","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}