Proust in love
William C. Carter · 2006
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About the book
"The Proust biographer William C. Carter portrays Marcel Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate the novelist'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, 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 meant to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought after the journalist Jean Lorrain alluded to his 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 a glimpse of Proust's gay Paris."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2006
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 252
- ISBN
- 9780300108125
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