Further Reading
BIOGRAPHIES
Carter, William C. Marcel Proust: A Life. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000, 946 p.
Biographical study of the life and work of Marcel Proust.
Epstein, Daniel Mark. “Proust regained.” The New Criterion 19, no. 2 (October 2000): 13-21.
Biographical overview of Proust; assesses recent studies on the life and works of Proust.
CRITICISM
Andrews, Chris. “Proust and Fandom.” Romance Studies 19, no. 2 (December 2001): 160-72.
Examines the behavior of the narrator in Remembrance of Things Past as that of a fan rather than a narrator.
Fraser, Robert. Proust and the Victorians: The Lamp of Memory. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 320 p.
Study of the influence on Proust of Victorian art and literature.
Johnson-Roullier, Cyraina E. Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities, and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000, 217 p.
New Criticism, cultural studies, and critical examinations of works by Proust, James Joyce, and James Baldwin.
Kopelson, Kevin. “Finishing Proust.” Iowa Review 31, no. 2 (fall 2001): 119-42.
Describes one scholar's experiences attempting to read the whole of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.
Kristeva, Julia. Time & Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature, trans., Ross Guberman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, 407 p.
Psychoanalytic study of the time and space continuum in Proust's masterwork.
Lamos, Colleen. “Sexual/Textual Inversion: Marcel Proust.” In Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust, pp. 170-216. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Examines self-reflexivity and deception in Remembrance of Things Past.
Murphy, Jonathan Paul. “Proust and Michelet: Intertextuality as Aegis.” French Studies 53, no. 4 (October 1999): 417-29.
Discusses the influence of the works of Jules Michelet on the writings of Proust.
Nalbantian, Suzanne. “The Art of Misrepresentation in Marcel Proust.” In Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anaïs Nin, pp. 62-99. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Discusses critical opinion about the relationship between author and narrator in Proust's works.
White, Edmund. Marcel Proust. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999, 165 p.
Biographic and critical overview of the life of Proust.
Additional coverage of Proust's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 58; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 3; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 120; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 110; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 65; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; Discovering Authors Modules: Most Studied Authors and Novelists; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; European Writers, Vol. 8; Guide to French Literature, Vol. 1789 to the Present; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1, 2; Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 2, 3; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 75; Twayne's World Authors; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 7, 13, 33; and World Literature Criticism.
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