Paintings in Proust

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With over two hundred beautifully reproduced paintings, drawings and engravings, and accompanying texts drawn from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright translation, this book is an essential addition to the libraries of Proustians worldwide and a handsome volume in its own right.

Eric Karpeles has identified and located all of the paintings to which the book makes exact reference. Where only a painter's name is mentioned, he has chosen a representative work to illustrate the impression that Proust sought to evoke. Botticelli's angels, Manet's courtesans, Mantegna's warriors and Carpaccio's saints are here as well as Monet's water lilies and Piranesi's engravings of Rome, while Karpeles's insightful essay and contextual commentary explain their significance to Proust.

Extensive notes and a comprehensive index of all painters and paintings mentioned in the novel provide an invaluable resource for the reader navigating 'In Search of Lost Time' for the first time or the fifth.