Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Marcel Proust
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Standard Name: Proust, Marcel
French novelist, whose novel sequence A la recherche du temps perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, blends memory, invention, and psychological study of the human response to time passing. It has been almost immeasurably influential.
Marcel Proust
, in the final stages of writing Sodome et Gomorrhe, read Pensées d'une Amazone and initiated correspondence with NCB
, hoping to learn more about lesbianism. Telling her that her book was...
Nancy Mitford
called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin.
prelims
Evelyn Waugh
called it entirely delicious . . . cool . . . elegant.
Dirda, Michael. “Sips from the finest vintage”. Guardian Weekly, p. 25.
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Reviewing a reprint for the...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Bowen
She never completed this work, but on the day before she died she said to Curtis Brown, I want it published.
Brown, Spencer Curtis, and Elizabeth Bowen. “Foreword”. Pictures and Conversations, Alfred A. Knopf, p. vii - xlii.
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With it he collected The Move-In, a riveting opening chapter of an...
Publishing
Elizabeth Bowen
EB
contributed to Marcel Proust, an expensive volume with illustrations, edited by Peter Quennell
, an essay entitled The Art of Bergotte.
Brown, Spencer Curtis, and Elizabeth Bowen. “Foreword”. Pictures and Conversations, Alfred A. Knopf, p. vii - xlii.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Anita Brookner
Again the protagonist, Kitty Maule, has a mixed national heritage: French/Russian and English. Again she is emotionally impoverished though academically successful; again she falls in love with a charismatic and unattainable man, Maurice Bishop. His...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anita Brookner
The daughter has found a notebook after her mother's death, but it contains very little information. Her opening sentence fully reveals the inadequacy of her knowledge. My mother read a lot, sighed a lot, and...
Reception
Dorothy Bussy
The book was a great success in England, where it went into twenty printings during the first several weeks of its release. Soon afterwards it was translated into French by Bussy herself and Roger Martin du Gard
Occupation
A. S. Byatt
These were the years during which, she later said, she was obsessed with Proust
.
Byatt, A. S. A. S. Byatt. http://www.asbyatt.com/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anne Carson
This booklet presents a literary analysis of the character Albertine who appears (mainly in volume 5) in Proust
's A la recherche du temps perdu. It upholds the transposition theory that Albertine is based...
Textual Production
Catherine Carswell
For the next couple of years Carswell's only completed literary work was an essay on women in Proust
that she contributed to the memorial volume on Proust collected by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
.
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Biography and Other Posthumous Papers, 1stst ed, Secker and Warburg, p. ix - xxi.
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Textual Features
Angela Carter
This novel (first of a group written as first-person confessional narratives)
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan.
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is a retrospective memoir of a war between the Reality Principle and the Pleasure Principle, set in a dissolving city in South...
Literary responses
Ivy Compton-Burnett
During the early part of ICB
's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer
was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anita Desai
AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson
Literary responses
Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca was DDM
's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time.
Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne.
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The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...
Timeline
1928: Edwin Muir published The Structure of the...
1946: Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German,...
Writing climate item
1946
Critic Erich Auerbach
published, in German, the influential study which became in its English translation, 1953, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He wrote it at Istanbul, as a Jewish refugee...
By July 1955: Françoise Sagan, aged eighteen, repeated...
Writing climate item
By July 1955
Françoise Sagan
, aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novelBonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash
.
Texts
Proust, Marcel. À L’Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs. Gallimard, 1919.
Proust, Marcel. Albertine Disparue. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925.
Proust, Marcel. By Way of Sainte-Beuve. Translator Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Chatto and Windus, 1958.
Proust, Marcel. Du Côté de Chez Swann. 1913.
Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1923.
Proust, Marcel. Le Côté de Guermantes. Gallimard, 1920.
Proust, Marcel. Le Côté de Guermantes II (Sodome et Gomorrhe I). Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921.
Proust, Marcel. Le Temps Retrouvé. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927.
Proust, Marcel. Les Plaisirs et les Jours. 1896.
Proust, Marcel. Sodome et Gomorrhe. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922.