Proustian Uncertainties : On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time - Saul Friedlander

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Proustian Uncertainties

On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time

By: Saul Friedlander

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Hardcover | 10 December 2020

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176 Pages

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An award-winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity—that of the novel’s narrator and Proust’s own.

In this engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time, Saul Friedländer considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust himself, and what the significance is of these various points of commonality and divergence. We know, for example, that the author did not hide his homosexuality, but the narrator did. Why the difference? We know that the narrator tried to marginalize his part-Jewish background. Does this reflect the author’s position, and how does the narrator handle what he tries, but does not manage, to dismiss? These are major questions raised by the text and reflected in the text, to which the author’s life doesn’t give obvious answers. The narrator’s reflections on time, on death, on memory, and on love are as many paths leading to the image of self that he projects.

In Proustian Uncertainties, Friedländer draws on his personal experience from a life spent investigating the ties between history and memory to offer a fresh perspective on the seminal work.

About the Author

Saul Friedl nder is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history (emeritus) at UCLA. He was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews, grew up in France, and lived in hiding during the German occupation of 1940-1944. His historical works have received great praise and recognition, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Years of Extermination- Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.

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"Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes."
New York Review of Books

"[Friedlander's] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness...Friedlander succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure."
New York Times Book Review

"[Friedlander's] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express."
The Guardian

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