Proust in Love – William C. Carter

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The acclaimed Proust biographer William Carter portrays Proust’s amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust’s own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual, and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of “Proust in love”, Carter also shows how the author’s experiences became major themes in his novel “In Search of Lost Time”. Carter discusses Proust’s adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought with the journalist Jean Lorrain after he alluded to Proust’s homosexuality in print, his flirtations with respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with young men of the servant class. With new revelations about Proust’s love life and a gallery of photographs, the book provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust’s gay Paris.

Hardcover. Like New. Dust wrapper. Like ne Pages internally fresh white and crisp, free from any ink inscriptions. Binding tight and firm. Beautiful copy. Out of print in this edition.

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SKU: 9780300108125 Category: Title: Proust in Love
Author: William C. Carter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2006
ISBN10: 0300108125
ISBN13: 9780300108125
Condition: Mint
Format: Hardcover
Inventory No: 1739

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The acclaimed Proust biographer William Carter portrays Proust’s amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust’s own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual, and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of “Proust in love”, Carter also shows how the author’s experiences became major themes in his novel “In Search of Lost Time”. Carter discusses Proust’s adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought with the journalist Jean Lorrain after he alluded to Proust’s homosexuality in print, his flirtations with respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with young men of the servant class. With new revelations about Proust’s love life and a gallery of photographs, the book provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust’s gay Paris.

Hardcover. Like New. Dust wrapper. Like ne Pages internally fresh white and crisp, free from any ink inscriptions. Binding tight and firm. Beautiful copy. Out of print in this edition.

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Weight 0.47 kg
Dimensions 21 × 14 × 2.6 cm

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