In this compact volume readers just beginning Proust's master work and
those who are already enriched by it will become aware of a significance
not unkown but only forgotten"--the basic structure of Proust's enormous
novel. The overall meaning of Proust's book lies in his three ways of
looking at the world--cinematographic, montage, and stereoscopic--and
their varying effects on the emotions and the intellect.
Originally published in 1983.
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