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Fall 2008 Books
PAINTINGS IN PROUST View Eric Karpeles' Paintings in Proust website A captivating, colorful examination of the ways in which Proust incorporated artists and the visual arts in his work
THE BOOK INCLUDES:
À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly
visual works in Western literature. Not only are there frequent
references to specific works of art, notably during the narrator’s visits
to Venice and in his evaluations of the style of the imaginary painter
Elstir, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular
paintings.
Bloch’s appearance as a boy is likened to the portrait of Mohammed
II by Gentile Bellini; Odette de Crécy strikes Swann by her resemblance
to a figure in a Botticelli fresco. Even the lesser figure of a certain Mme.
Blattin becomes the subject of Proustian mischief by being described as
“exactly the portrait of Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo.”
Eric Karpeles has identified and located the many paintings to which
Proust makes reference; in other cases, where only a painter’s name is
mentioned to indicate a certain style or appearance, Karpeles has chosen
a representative work to illustrate the impression that Proust sought to
evoke.
With some 200 paintings beautifully reproduced in full color and
texts drawn from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright translation, as well
as concise commentaries on the novel’s evolving story, this book is an
essential addition to the libraries of Proustians everywhere.
Eric Karpeles is a painter who was educated at Haverford College,
Oxford University, and The New School. He lives in California.
ISBN 978-0-500-23854-7 · 61/4" x 91/4"
· 200 color illustrations · 352 pages · ART / LITERATURE |
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