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Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Priso, Karpeles, Czapski*.
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- 9781681372587
- EAN
- 9781681372587
- Book Title
- Lost Time : Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Speeches, European / French, Subjects & Themes / Historical events
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 5.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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The first translation of painter and writer J zef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier J zef Czapski brought Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described the arc and import of Proust's masterpiece, sketched major and minor characters in striking detail, and movingly evoked the work's originality, depth, and beauty. Eric Karpeles has translated this brilliant and -altogether unparalleled feat of the critical imagination into English for the first time, and in a thoughtful introduction he brings out how, in reckoning with Proust's great meditation on memory, Czapski helped his fellow officers to remember that there was a world apart from the world of the camp. Proust had staked the art of the novelist against the losses of a lifetime and the imminence of death. Recalling that triumphant wager, unfolding, like Sheherazade, the intricacies of Proust's world night after night, Czapski showed to men at the end of their tether that the past remained present and there was a future in which to hope.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681372584
ISBN-13
9781681372587
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242975752
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lost Time : Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Speeches, European / French, Subjects & Themes / Historical events
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pq2631.R63a7848 2018
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"To think of these radiant, incisive reflections delivered in the stinking cold of a Soviet prisoner-of-war mess hall beggars imagination. A remnant of the Polish officer class done to death en mass by Stalin, Czapski was--without benefit of books or notes--among the greatest Proustians. Long may his name live." --Benjamin Taylor, "The Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski lived through almost the entire twentieth century as an exception to the rule. A pacifist who became a Polish army officer being deported to a Soviet prison camp in 1939, he was one of very few to survive the Katyn massacre perpetrated by Stalin's secret police the following year....He was both a patriot and a European in the deepest sense, with friends and family connections across the continent. In this year's centenary of independence regained, a new generation of Poles in a country at the crossroads must decide whether Czapski's vision will also be theirs." --Stanley Bill, Times Literary Supplement "To think of these radiant, incisive reflections delivered in the stinking cold of a Soviet prisoner-of-war mess hall beggars imagination. A remnant of the Polish officer class done to death en mass by Stalin, Czapski was--without benefit of books or notes--among the greatest Proustians. Long may his name live." --Benjamin Taylor "Czapski sometimes speaks of himself--but always in terms of the ceaseless battle he wages for clear vision, for full use of his gifts, the battle to imbue his life with maximal meaning." --Adam Zagajewski, "To think of these radiant, incisive reflections delivered in the stinking cold of a Soviet prisoner-of-war mess hall beggars imagination. A remnant of the Polish officer class done to death en mass by Stalin, Czapski was--without benefit of books or notes--among the greatest Proustians. Long may his name live." --Benjamin Taylor "Czapski sometimes speaks of himself--but always in terms of the ceaseless battle he wages for clear vision, for full use of his gifts, the battle to imbue his life with maximal meaning." --Adam Zagajewski
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2018-024070
Dewey Decimal
843.912
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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