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"Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."―Richard Bernstein, New York Times

For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece, and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way, the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.
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Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well. -- Richard Bernstein, New York Times

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Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (August 17, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 318 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393321800
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393321807
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 1 x 8.2 inches
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Stuart Leviton
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2023
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Author's style is engaging and informative
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David E. Gregson
5.0 out of 5 stars Basic necessity if you are reading Proust's huge novel (s).
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012
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"In Search of Lost Time" goes on and on and on to the point you will be searching for your own lost time. Dipping into Shattuck's guide helps to keep your spinning thoughts in their proper orbit. I checked five stars, although reading Proust has raised (for me at least) many questions this book simply does not seem to address. At least Shattuck provides a really decent basic orientation. I am not certain a Kindle edition is the best way to go on a "Field Guide" where flipping back and forth between pages is helpful, but I was anxious to have this in a hurry. Odd -- to be in a hurry when reading Proust! Not advised.
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Brenda H.
4.0 out of 5 stars but the critical analysis seems very good. The book itself
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I purchased this book as an aid to retrospective understanding of my first foray into Proust, Swann's Way, which I had a attract-repel relationship with all the way through. I hoped that I would gain some enlightenment from Shattuck about Proust's magnum opus, and that reading his book would help me decide whether I want to tackle the second volume. I am only 64 pages into the book, but the critical analysis seems very good. The book itself, however, is printed on very cheap cream-colored paper, and the back cover contains blurbs about Shattuck's book from three people who are not identified in any away except for their names. I found that so odd that I Googled Shattuck to see what kind of a credentials he had to write on this subject. A lot, evidently, so there is nothing lacking on that score. The only drawback, therefore, that I find to this book is the lack of aesthetic pleasure in reading from, and turning page after page of, a very cheaply done edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Shattuck was one of the best commentators on Proust
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016
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Shattuck was one of the best commentators on Proust. His prose is elegant and easy to read and his knowledge of his subject is second to none.
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Sara Sonego-Young
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A great guide very different from the others. Definitely worth reading it.
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Mark Calkins
3.0 out of 5 stars A strong beginning, pedantic middle, weak conclusion.
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2000
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Shattuck's guide is at times brilliant, at others, pedantic. The opening chapters about Proust's life and ways to approach the novel are surprisingly the best-an excellent resource for beginning Proust readers. I highly recommended them. The middle chapters outlining Proust's "vision" and aesthetics make some intelligent and convincing points, but are over-general and are curiously earnest in their tone. I think he's very articulate about the "double I" (Marcel vs. Narrator), but neologisms like "soul error" to explain Marcel's dissipation are confusing, and the diagrams seem to function to convince rather than to elucidate. Chapter VIII, "Continuing Disputes," contains some useful information for scholars about the current state of Proust studies, but borders on self-indulgence. And while I appreciate his shattering criticism of the "critique génétique" behind the new Pléiade edition of the novel, at other times Shattuck just sounds like the curmudgeon of Proust criticism. The book ends with several appendices, which make the book conclude in a stutter. In conclusion: I would recommend the first chapters to beginning Proust readers, but beyond that it did not add much to my understanding of Proust's novel.
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Victoria Roth
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT guide for reading Proust
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2014
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GREAT guide for reading Proust. Made all the difference in my understanding and enjoyment of this great piece of literature
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Marie Bonnard
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EF
5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant
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brilliant, a must if one want to read Proust.
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Federico
3.0 out of 5 stars Serious Stuff - Literary Analysis
Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2016
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Excellent... if you're looking for a serious literary analysis of "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu". Themes, recurring literary obsessions, sub themes, are explored, not in absolute depth (this isn't a doctorate thesis, after all), but in some depth. An amusing point : Shattuck tell us the number of pages Proust needs to express particular sentences, segments or actions. At times, the number of those pages is so high that only Proust can get away with such abundance! And, though "La Recherche" was written in the first person, Shattuck points out there are three "persons" within that "first person": an Observer, a Narrator, and "Marcel" who is actually named at a few points, but who is, in fact, a character other than Marcel Proust himself. That observation helps guide us through many of Proust's more difficult-to-fathom points of view. Shattuck's other theories, though abundantly explored, are perhaps less efficient, or less well substantiated. The book goes on to analyse the films that were made of "Remembrance of Things Past", and even, the many book editions that were published, spending a good while on the two "definitive" Pléiade editions, and more particularly on the notes that accompany these editions. In total, this book is an in-depth dive into the literary experience of reading Proust's masterpiece. I personally preferred "Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A reader's guide to Remembrance of Things Past", by Patrick Alexander, a much lighter work, more plot and character oriented, though there were many segments in "Proust's Way", where I was totally engrossed.
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