Proust (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Memory, Perception, Philosophy or philosophers, Literature, Writing, Novelists, Time, Habits, Modernism
Critical Evaluation:
Samuel Beckett’s first book, Whoroscope (1930), a ninety-eight-line poem which deals with the life of the French philosopher Rene Descartes and the subject of time, won for the impoverished twenty-four-year-old writer ten pounds and publication by Nancy Cunard’s modest Hours Press. Two of Beckett’s writer friends, Richard Aldington and Thomas McGreevy, immediately urged Charles Prentice, an editor at Chatto and Windus, to commission Beckett to write a monograph on Marcel Proust, the major modernist French novelist of the first half of the...
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