Simply Proust Simply Proust JACK JORDAN SIMPLY CHARLY NEW YORK Copyright © 2020 by Jack Jordan Cover Illustration by José Ramos Cover Design by Scarlett Rugers All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher at the address below.
[email protected] ISBN: 978-1-943657-44-5 Brought to you by http://simplycharly.com This book was produced with Pressbooks (https://pressbooks.com) and rendered with Prince. Contents Other Great Lives vii Series Editor's Foreword viii Preface ix À la recherche ́ du temps perdu (In Search of Lost xvi Time) Marcel Proust xvii 1. Marcel Proust's Early Days 1 2. Out and about 13 3. In Search of Lost Time 21 4. Final Years 35 5. The Narrator: Travels in the Space-Time 42 Continuum 6. A Search for Certainty 51 7. Immobile Means of Transportation 61 8. Proust and the Human Sciences 75 9. Proust the naturalist 84 10. Three types of observation 90 11. The Reader: Riding the Proust Wave 103 Sources 111 Suggested Reading 112 About the Author 115 A Word from the Publisher 116 Other Great Lives Simply Austen by Joan Klingel Ray Simply Beckett by Katherine Weiss Simply Beethoven by Leon Plantinga Simply Chekhov by Carol Apollonio Simply Chomsky by Raphael Salkie Simply Chopin by William Smialek Simply Darwin by Michael Ruse Simply Descartes by Kurt Smith Simply Dickens by Paul Schlicke Simply Dirac by Helge Kragh Simply Einstein by Jimena Canales Simply Eliot by Joseph Maddrey Simply Euler by Robert E.