Research Catalog

Title

Lost time : lectures on Proust in a Soviet prison camp / Józef Czapski ; translated from the French by Eric Karpeles.

Author

Czapski, Józef, 1896-1993

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

Karpeles, Eric

Description

xxxiv, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, 90 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

"The first translation of painter and writer Jozef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, in the heart of the malevolent Soviet Union, a Polish prisoner of war brought Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu to life without a single page of text available for reference. Presenting a series of lectures in an attempt to distract his fellow officers from their collective misery, Jozef Czapski managed to revive the novel and his experience of reading it purely from memory. It was a clarifying moment for him, a Proustian moment. His talks were given in French, helping to focus the men's minds and distract their thoughts from their grim surroundings. Calling upon deep reserves of aesthetic knowledge and critical thinking in a variety of languages, Czapski offered aspects of Proust's story, like Scheherazade, night after night. His lectures are a testament to the survival of memories of both worlds woven together, the fictional Faubourg Saint-Germain and the actual Soviet prison camp"--

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

• Proust contre la déchéance. English
• New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Proust contre la déchéance.

Subjects

• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
• Prisoners' writings, Polish
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 > À la recherche du temps perdu
• LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French
• Prisoners' writings, Polish > Translations into English
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 > Aesthetics
• À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel)
• Aesthetics
• Translations

Genre/Form

Translations.

Note

• "First published in the French language as Proust contre la decheance: conférences au camp du Griazowietz by Les Editions Noir sur Blanc"--Title page verso.

Call Number

JFD 19-884

ISBN

• 9781681372587
• 1681372584

LCCN

• 2018024070
• 40028677969

OCLC

1023103240

Author

Czapski, Józef, 1896-1993, author.

Title

Lost time : lectures on Proust in a Soviet prison camp / Józef Czapski ; translated from the French by Eric Karpeles.

Publisher

New York : New York Review Books, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books classics.

Added Author

Karpeles, Eric, writer of introduction, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Czapski, Józef, 1896-1993. Lost time. New York : New York Review Books Classics, [2018] 9781681372594 (DLC) 2018028507

Other Standard Identifier

40028677969

Research Call Number

JFD 19-884