Howard Moss "Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust: A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past."
"The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful—wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy." — John Updike.
A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. The seven novels that make up this complex work are analyzed in terms of their relation to the whole.
Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics.
Nonpareil Books. First Edition. 1979.
Paperback.
New book. Book in excellent visual and technical condition.