The World According to Proust
Joshua Landy
This 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.
Landy 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.
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.
Landy 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.
年:
2022
出版社:
Oxford University Press
语言:
english
页:
152
ISBN 10:
0197648681
ISBN 13:
9780197648681
文件:
PDF, 6.42 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2022
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