...Will L. Mclendon BOOKS Proust and the Art of Love. By J. E. Rivers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 327. $22.50. The fact that Proust has long been viewed by many as a pioneer in the treat­ ment of homosexuality in the modern novel has largely prevented critics from questioning...

...Sidney S. Alderman Proust: The Early Years . By Painter George D. . Boston : Atlantic-Little Brown , 1959 . Pp. xvii , 411 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 286 The South Atlantic Quarterly One wonders, therefore, what future generations of historians...

...Thomas Cordle Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Proust and Literature: The Novelist as Critic . By Strauss Walter A. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1957 . Pp. 263 . $4.75 . Book Reviews 519 dents are sometimes justified in the often overheard remark...

...Sidney S. Alderman Proust Recaptured . By Johnson Pamela Hansford . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1958 . Pp. xii , 292 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 488 The South Atlantic Quarterly E. L. Godkin and American Foreign Policy, 1865-1900...

...Sidney S. Alderman Marcel Proust and His Literary Friends . By LeSage Laurent . Urbana : The University of Illinois Press , 1958 . Pp. 109 . Paper $2.50 , cloth $3.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 328 The South Atlantic Quarterly esty in recognizing...

...Sidney S. Alderman Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 YOUNG PROUST S SEARCH FOR LOST TIME Sidney S. Alderman MARCEL PROUST is known for his one great final work, A la recherche du temps perdu, and practically for that work alone. The first part of it, Du cote de chez Swann...

... Company, 1978. Pp. x, 243. $9.95. In early 1947 Mina Curtiss began a search in Paris for unpublished letters of Proust which she was to translate and publish in 1949 under the title, Letters of Marcel Proust. This memoir is the story of the search which led to a second search for letters and documents...

... or as long as Godkin would doubtless yield comparable results. DUKE UNIVERSITY GADDIS SMITH Proust Recaptured. By Pamela Hansford Johnson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp. xii, 292. $4.00. Another bit of perhaps Proustiana, but of a very novel sort. Claim­ ing to follow Proust s example...

... of his own style. Thus it is that he chooses his ground and his tactic according to a design that is never fully revealed, unless it be in the evolu­ tions of his own creation. Professor Strauss s book, without adding measurably to the figure of Proust, puts forcefully in evidence the novelist s...

.... The purpose of this book is to indicate how an author s concept of time influences the value and meaning of his novels. This opening sentence introduces a series of critical scrutinies of the fiction of Proust, Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Huxley, Mann, Kafka, Thomas Wolfe, Faulkner, and Sartre. The model...

... UNIVERSITY LEWIS PATTON Marcel Proust and His Literary Friends. By Laurent LeSage. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1958. Pp. 109. Paper $2.50, cloth $3.50. The many volumes of Proust s correspondence published in recent years, and yet by no means complete, have thrown a flood of new light on his...

... and Princeton during this period. DUKE UNIVERSITY CHARLES A. FENTON Proust: The Early Years. By George D. Painter. Boston: AtlanticLittle Brown, 1959. Pp. xvii, 411. $6.50. If one can get beyond the stumbling block of its preface, this new biography of Marcel Proust, which covers only the years until the death...

... Protee (1953) and Du temps perdu au temps retrouve (1950), the latter translated by C. J. Richards and A. D. Truitt and published by Rutgers in 1955 under the title Marcel Proust and Deliver­ ance from Time. She has written directly in English numerous articles on French literature, including two...

... Daudet, Mauriac, Maurice Rostand, Riviere, Chardonne, and De Lacretelle. Proust s exquisite politeness and flowery compliments to his friends somewhat conceal his true views of many of these authors and of their works, but not without some sharp and most revealing touches. There are instances of hardly...

... soul obsessed, so far gone over to fantasy that it takes precedence over real life? Marcel Proust spent the later years of his life as a semirecluse, because of his hypersensitivity, in rooms darkened and lined with cork, venturing out only at rare intervals, late at night, to revisit the haunts of his...

... contemporaneous for the person whose memory it is. This is depicted with exquisite clarity in what is almost certainly the most famous literary rendition of the phenomenon of involun- 434 Kenneth Surin tary memory, namely, the famous madeleine scene in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu...

... expression largely in fiction, especially in the work of Marcel Proust. But he seems perplexed as to the exact relationships between fiction and poetry and Proust; as a result the introduction, which at­ tempts to survey attitudes toward time from St. Augustine to Samuel Beckett, is the least satisfactory...

... not on the novel of manners so much as on novelists as­ sumptions about manners; sometimes, on the manners of novelists. He reacts wittily to a whole spectrum of snobbishness, in Proust, Edith Wharton, James, Trollope, and John O Hara; pronounces judgment on unseemly zeal and outdated moralism, in Bourget...

... Reviews 289 Proust himself refused to do but unfortunately we are not allowed to compare the undisclosed French originals with his English translations. Beautifully rendered as they seem to be, we still have to take them also on faith. Eagerly we await the documentation of this remarkable book two years...

... is to indicate how an author s concept of time influences the value and meaning of his novels. This opening sentence introduces a series of critical scrutinies of the fiction of Proust, Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Huxley, Mann, Kafka, Thomas Wolfe, Faulkner, and Sartre. The model for this type of inquiry is Georges...