{"product_id":"the-world-according-to-proust-9780197648681","title":"The World According to Proust","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e100 years after Proust's death, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time readers and veterans alike to view the novel in a new way.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarcel Proust (1871-1922) was arguably France's best-known literary writer. He was the author of stories, essays, translations, and a 3,000-page novel, \u003cem\u003e In Search of Lost Time\u003c\/em\u003e (1913-27). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a brief guide to Proust's magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites the reader to view the novel as a single quest-a quest for purpose, enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging- through the novel's fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex desire, knowledge, self-understanding, self-fashioning, and the unconscious mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLandy also shows why the questions Proust raises are important and exciting for all of us: how we can feel at home in the world; how we can find genuine connection with other human beings; how we can find enchantment in a world without God; how art can transform our lives; whether an artist's life can shed light on their work; what we can know about the world, other people, and ourselves; when not knowing is better than knowing; how sexual orientation affects questions of connection and identity; who we are, deep down; what memory tells us about our inner world; why it might be good to think of our life as a story; how we can feel like a single, unified person when we are torn apart by change and competing desires. Finally, Landy suggests why it's worthwhile to read the novel itself-how the long, difficult, but joyous experience of making it through 3,000 pages of prose can be transformative for our minds and souls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Landy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 5.77w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197648681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Landy\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he co-directs the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature and co-hosts the nationally syndicated public radio program \"Philosophy Talk.\" His books include \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2004), \u003cem\u003eHow to Do Things With Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2012), and (as coeditor) \u003cem\u003eThe Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age\u003c\/em\u003e (Stanford, 2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40797474750579,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c5a75347-a0a6-43c4-ae08-ee80784ba5c1.jpg?v=1682000067","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-world-according-to-proust-9780197648681","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}