The acclaimed Proust biographer William Carter portrays
Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence
through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's
own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations
about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly
caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a
homosexual, and the need to find and express love. In telling the
story of "Proust in love", Carter also shows how the
author's experiences became major themes in his novel "In
Search of Lost Time". Carter discusses Proust's adolescent
sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual
inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel
Proust fought with the journalist Jean Lorrain after he alluded to
Proust's homosexuality in print, his flirtations with
respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with
young men of the servant class. With new revelations about
Proust's love life and a gallery of photographs, the book
provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust's gay Paris.
"William C. Carter is Proust''s definitive biographer. His "Proust in Love "is a marvelous study of the comic splendor of the great novelist''s vision of human eros and its discontents."--Harold Bloom --Harold Bloom
William C. Carter is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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