{"product_id":"9781589880795","title":"The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust: A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[ \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust\u003c\/i\u003e ] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful—wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy.\"—John Updike\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics.\" —George D. Painter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own pantheon of gods, its own religious rituals, and its own moral laws. A total vision, it does not rely on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write the \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e utilizing only the facts of his own existence without any reference to Christianity...Other novelists describe or invent worlds. \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e is an entire universe created and interpreted by Marcel Proust.\" — from Chapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Moss lays out the sweeping claims and overarching structure of \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e —the significance of Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way, or why there are such long party scenes—and is equally good at bringing to light all sorts of tiny, revealing details.\" — from the new Foreword by Damion Searls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHoward Moss\u003c\/b\u003e was poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e for almost forty years. He also wrote more than a dozen books of poetry, plays, criticism, and a book of arch parody-microbiographies of cultural figures, \u003ci\u003eInstant Lives\u003c\/i\u003e , illustrated by Edward Gorey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat We Were Doing and Where We Were Going\u003c\/i\u003e (stories) and has written for \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e. As a translator—of authors including Marcel Proust ( \u003ci\u003eOn Reading\u003c\/i\u003e )—he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dry, Paul Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055779561712,"sku":"9781589880795","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781589880795_p0.jpg?v=1763808450","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781589880795","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}