{"product_id":"living-and-dying-with-marcel-proust-by-christopher-prendergast-9781787703513","title":"Living and Dying with Marcel Proust","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity...no Proustian should be without it.' - Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Literate, lively, and leavened by wry and gentle humour, \u003ci\u003eLiving and Dying with Marcel Proust\u003c\/i\u003e is a feast.' - Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, \u003ci\u003eA la recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/i\u003e belongs in the tradition of the Initiation Story. The journey it describes combines elements drawn from the earlier narratives of great expectations and lost illusions, while recasting them in ways that are distinctively Proust's. The eminent Proust scholar, Christopher Prendergast, traces that journey as it unfolds on an arc defined by the polarity of his title, living and dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis book offers a chapter by chapter exploration of the rich sensory and impressionistic tapestry of a lived world, woven by the pulse of desire, the hauntings of memory, and an ever alert responsiveness to tastes, perfumes, sounds, and colours. It also traces the construction of a unique architecture of narrative time and a corresponding mode of story-telling, marked by all manner of loops, swerves, detours, regressions, and returns, from the macro level of the novel's plot to the micro level of the famously elaborate Proustian sentence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lives of his characters, both major and minor, are shown as criss-crossing and converging in ways that often take the reader by surprise, before descending the arc on an irreversible trajectory of decline, as the body starts to fail and the grave beckons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596771508460,"sku":"9781787703513","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4f798d1a97c07ce7801b0b5dffd961e0.jpg?v=1777946834","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/living-and-dying-with-marcel-proust-by-christopher-prendergast-9781787703513","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}