{"product_id":"marcel-proust-a-life-9780300081459","title":"Marcel Proust: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first comprehensive biography of Marcel Proust since George Painters biography was published in 1959. Like Prousts masterpiece  A la recherche du temps perdu  the biography is structured as the story of the writers slow and at times excruciatingly painful search for a vocation. Proust emerges from Carters narrative as an extremely complicated  difficult and brilliant man. Carter goes into some detail to elucidate Prousts curious sexual identity - from his intense and often histrionic relationships with his male friends to his quasi-pathological attachment to his mother to the bizarre sexual fetishes that emerged in his visits to Parisian brothels. But the biography focuses firmly on Prousts development as an artist - the distracted years as a dilettantish member of Parisian high-society  the dabbling in journalism and translation and  finally  his emergence as one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. This is a full  rich  deep  and all encompassing biography of one of the great writers in the world. It is also an elucidating cultural history of the times in which he lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279673548853,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300081456","price":85.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300081459.jpg?v=1780605749","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/marcel-proust-a-life-9780300081459","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}