Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (New

Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (New York Review Books Classics)

The first translation of painter and writer JÃ³zef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II.

During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier JÃ³zef Czapski brought Marcel Proustâ€™s In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described the arc and import of Proustâ€™s masterpiece, sketched major and minor characters in striking detail, and movingly evoked the workâ€™s originality, depth, and beauty. Eric Karpeles has translated this brilliant and Âaltogether unparalleled feat of the critical imagination into English for the first time, and in a thoughtful introduction he brings out how, in reckoning with Proustâ€™s great meditation on memory, Czapski helped his fellow officers to remember that there was a world apart from the world of the camp. Proust had staked the art of the novelist against the losses of a lifetime and the imminence of death. Recalling that triumphant wager, unfolding, like Sheherazade, the intricacies of Proustâ€™s world night after night, Czapski showed to men at the end of their tether that the past remained present and there was a future in which to hope.
Country USA
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-11-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-11-06
Format	Kindle eBook

Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (New York Review Books Classics)

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