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Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to in Search of Lost Time

Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to in Search of Lost Time

Karpeles, Eric

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral ArtPainting Instruction

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0500293422
ISBN13: 9780500293423
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: Sep 19 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Not only are there frequent references to specific works of art, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings. Bloch's appearance as a boy is likened to the portrait of Mehmet II by Gentile Bellini; Odette de Crécy strikes Swann by her resemblance to a figure in a Botticelli fresco. Even the lesser figure of a certain Mme. Blattin becomes the subject of Proustian mischief by being described as exactly the portrait of Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo. Eric Karpeles has identified and located the many paintings to which Proust makes reference and sets them alongside the relevant text from the novel; in other cases, where only a painter's name is mentioned to indicate a certain style or appearance, Karpeles has chosen a representative work to illustrate the impression that Proust sought to evoke.

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