The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust

The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust: A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past / New Foreword by Damion Searls / 124-page paperback / 5" x 8" / ISBN 978-1-58988-079-5 / Publication Date: September 2012 "[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 "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." —George D. Painter "A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader." —Publishers Weekly "Remembrance of Things Past is more t