Anka Muhlstein
Auteur van Monsieur Proust's Library
Over de Auteur
Anka Muhlstein, a biographer and historian born in Paris, won the Goncourt Prize in 1996 for Letters from Russia. She won the History Prize of the French Academy for this book and one other and is the author of Monsieur Proust's Library and Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and toon meer Culture with Honor de Balzac. She resides in New York. toon minder
Fotografie: Anka Muhlstein (Foto (c) Bettina Strauss)
Werken van Anka Muhlstein
Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac (2010) 95 exemplaren
The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels (2016) 22 exemplaren
Königinnen auf Zeit: Katharina von Medici, Maria von Medici, Anna von Österreich (2001) 11 exemplaren
Grande crónica da Segunda Guerra Mundial 1 exemplaar
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- 1935
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- Paris, France
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
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- biographer
historian - Relaties
- Begley, Louis (2nd husband)
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Here, we see how Proust was shaped by Racine's rejection of proper syntactical structure and also how Baudelaire piqued Proust's interest in issues of queerness and sexuality in literature; we learn of his unemphatic views of George Sand from whose book, curiously, the Narrator's mother in the Recherche reads to him in the beginning of the first volume; we see how British writers such as Hardy, Eliot, and especially Ruskin influenced Proust's approach to his novel; we get a good grasp of how influential Ruskin was on Proust after he had shelved his unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil, and found Ruskin to be "the gateway" to finding a workable structure for the Recherche both in terms of narrative and aesthetics; and we also meet the many writers and artists that populate Proust's massive novel, learning how their reading tastes reflect their moralities.
Recommended to any fans of Proust, or those who are embarking on their first read of the Recherche Note: Muhlstein offers an introduction of the major characters from the novel in the beginning of her book. Some major plot points are given away in these character sketches, and, given that she contextualizes the quotes from the Recherche rather well throughout, I would advise first-time Proust readers to skip this so as to not ruin the novel for them.… (meer)