Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary Proust
James, Clive
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary Proust - United Kingdom; Pan Macmillan; 2016 - 74 Pages; Hardback
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading À la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and engagement with Proust's eternal masterpiece. With À la recherche du temps perdu, Proust, in James's words, 'followed his creative instinct all the way until his breath gave out', and now James has done the same. In Gate of Lilacs, James, a brilliant critical essayist and poet, has blended the two forms into one.
9781509812356
Poetry, Drama & Criticism
821.91
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary Proust - United Kingdom; Pan Macmillan; 2016 - 74 Pages; Hardback
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading À la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and engagement with Proust's eternal masterpiece. With À la recherche du temps perdu, Proust, in James's words, 'followed his creative instinct all the way until his breath gave out', and now James has done the same. In Gate of Lilacs, James, a brilliant critical essayist and poet, has blended the two forms into one.
9781509812356
Poetry, Drama & Criticism
821.91