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There is so much to praise in Adam Watt's Reading in Proust's A la recherche that one doesn't quite know where to begin ... In just under 200 pages, Adam Watt has definitely accomplished the remarkable critical tour de force of integrating into one decisive study the daunting pile of Proust criticism written so far and inviting the reader (always gracefully referred to as female!) to again return to the experience of reading Proust as it should be read -with sense and sensibility, a sense of taste and the promise of poetic ecstasy. * Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Oscholars *
a nuanced and wholly convincing study... This lucid, elegantly written book is an important contribution to Proust studies * French Studies *
Repeatedly in Reading in Prousts A la recherche one encounters readings that emphasize the visual and sonorous characteristics of Prousts prose. These close readings, beyond their exceptional acuity, have the merit of breaking new ground in Proust criticism and illuminating a poetic prose that assimilates the qualities and function of verse * Matthieu Vernet , "Lire nuit gravement a la sante", Acta Fabula, Dossier critique : "Acta par Fabula" *
ambitious and well-informed study * Nathalie Aubert, Journal of Romance Studies *
Watt provides exquisite glimpses of textual activity itself: a savouring of the acoustic patterns, of the subtexts, which operate as sensory accompaniments to, and sometimes contradictions of, the principal thrust of [Proust's] argument. * Clive Scott, Journal of European Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199566174
Author Adam Watt
Format Hardback
Page Count 202
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 392g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 144mm * 17mm