{"product_id":"the-magic-lantern-of-marcel-proust-a-critical-study-of-remembrance-of-things-past-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoward Moss was poetry editor of the New Yorker from 1948 until his death in 1987. He won the National Book Award in 1972 for Selected Poems.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873621217554,"sku":"9781589880795","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be19c80c-8193-4c5a-8f08-d172e3b17af7.jpg?v=1737944590","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-magic-lantern-of-marcel-proust-a-critical-study-of-remembrance-of-things-past-9781589880795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}