Download or read book Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time written by Roger Shattuck and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-08-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a matchless companion. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers an eminently useful and readable guidebook to Proust's epic work, presenting Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were fully matched by his irrepressible comic sense. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Proust's Way will serve as the next generation's guide to the book that many consider the undisputed masterpiece of the twentieth-century novel. Book jacket.