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Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary Proust

By: Publication details: United Kingdom; Pan Macmillan; 2016Description: 74 Pages; HardbackISBN:
  • 9781509812356
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.91
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Poetry and Drama 821.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn PKLC018962
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Poetry and Drama 821.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn For Sale PKLC028401
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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.

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