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Proust in Love (Hardback)
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Short Description for Proust in LovePortrays Proust's adventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's observations about love and sexuality. The author shows Proust as a man caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual, and the need to find and express love, providing a glimpse of Proust's gay Paris.
Full description- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Published: 02 June 2006
- Format: Hardback 280 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
- ISBN 13: 9780300108125 ISBN 10: 0300108125
- Sales rank: 1,007,470
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Full description for Proust in Love
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.
