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Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time | 
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| Creator: Eric Karpeles
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0500238545
Dewey Decimal Number: 704
EAN: 9780500238547
ASIN: 0500238545
Publication Date: October 27, 2008
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Product Description
A captivating, colorful examination of the ways in which Proust incorporated artists and the visual arts in his work.
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, notably during the narrator's visits to Venice and in his evaluations of the style of the imaginary painter Elstir, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings.
Bloch's appearance as a boy is likened to the portrait of Mohammed II by Gentile Bellini; Odette de Crecy 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; 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.
With some 200 paintings beautifully reproduced in full color and texts drawn from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright translation, as well as concise commentaries on the novel's evolving story, this book is an essential addition to the libraries of Proustians everywhere.
The book includes:
• An authoritative introduction examining the various ways in which Proust used paintings and the arts to extend his descriptive vocabulary
• A comprehensive index of artists and paintings mentioned in the novel
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For Proust lovers January 6, 2009
Alex P. (New York)
This is a delightful art(coffee table) book. Each page contains quotation from Proust which mention a specific painting or an artist; on the opposite page there is a well-printed plate of corresponding painting.Charming!
 Pleae. I did not receive the book. December 22, 2008
Conrado Jorge Heck (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I did not receive the book. Please. I need 'objet number' of the shipment in USA post office.
Thank you.
Conrado
Being Close to Proust December 16, 2008
MMALKA (SAN FRANCISCO)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a treasure to savor slowly. I keep it on my table and look at a few every day. It is different to look at a painting through Proust's eyes. What a gift!
Eric Karpeles Brings New Meaning to Reading Proust. November 28, 2008
G. Merritt (Boulder, CO)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Influenced by his readings in Carlyle and John Ruskin, Marcel Proust knew his art, whether it was art theory, the role of the artist in society, or the works of Vermeer, Manet, or Mantegna. For Proust, a painting inspired a thousand words. Painter Eric Karpeles enhances one's appreciation for reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu) with his superb compilation of 206 illustrations in Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time. Combining his knowledge of art with his love of reading Proust, Karpeles carefully matches every painting or painter referenced in Proust's monumental seven-part masterpiece with Proust's own textual passages from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/ Enright translation. The result is nothing less than profound. With its introduction examining the various ways in which Proust used art to extend his descriptive vocabulary and its comprehensive index of artists and paintings referenced in Proust's novel, Karpeles' labour of love will appeal to anyone with a love for reading Proust. Highly recommended.
G. Merritt
A contribution long-expected by the lovers of "La Recherche" November 13, 2008
Claude Reich (Florianopolis, Brazil and Paris, France)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This publication will undoubtedly please any Proust fan and will make you wonder how nobody had the idea before. It lists and reproduces all the paintings alluded to in Proust's masterwork "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" (In Search of Lost Time). Each work is reproduced in full color, next to the passage of the book in which Proust mentioned it (or sometimes just alluded to it, only mentioning a detail of the work without naming it, and this is where the book does a wonderful documentation job).
The illustrated works (more than 200 of them) range from Renaissance paintings by Titian, Fra Bartolomeo, Da Vinci, etc, to Vermeer's famous View of Delft (illustrated next to the description of Bergotte's death), to modern works by Degas or Manet, but there are also numerous works by lesser-known artists, whose reproductions would be very difficult to find elsewhere (Leon Bakst, Gustave Jacquet,Jehan-Georges Vibert...).
This book is all the more important to the understanding of Proust as he himself acknowledged that "La Recherche" was a work whose theme was the birth of an artistic vocation in the narrator's soul, the novel itself being the result of this birth. He also wrote that " my book is a painting" (as quoted in the present book). Art, and painting in particular, holds a central part in the whole work and, until now, no one had undertaken the necessary task of documenting this. "Paintings in Proust" is at the same time a very helpful and a beautiful contribution to the study of one of the most important works in Western literature.
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