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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 October 2009
      16 March 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511551376
      9780521363495
      9780521028028
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551376
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.299kg, 140 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.194kg, 140 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Music, European Literature, European Studies, Nineteenth-Century Music
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    Literature, Area Studies, Music, European Literature, European Studies, Nineteenth-Century Music
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    Does one need to know the rules of harmony to be considered a musician? Throughout A la recherche du temps perdu, and particularly ' Swann in Love', Proust displays a surprising sensitivity to the way music is heard, a sensitivity to which we owe some of the most beautiful writing on music. Through a study of the texts devoted to the Sonata and Septet of Vinteui, Jean-Jacques Nattiez demonstrates the fundamental role played by music in the evolution of the novel. He also shows how Debussy, Wagner and Beethoven provide the basis for a mystical quest whose goal is pure music and the literary absolute. Music as model for literature: this is the subject of Professor Nattiez's essay, which unravels the various musical themes running through Proust's work, and which thus constitutes a particularly clear and perceptive introduction to his writing.

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    "...pleasant reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike. It is agreeably written and smoothly translated...." Pauline Newman-Gordon, French Review

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