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Józef Czapski, a Polish painter and army officer held as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union, delivered these lectures on Proust's In Search of Lost Time to fellow officers with no copy of the book at hand, working entirely from memory. The lectures sketch the novel's arc, its major and minor characters, and its ideas about memory, time and art. Eric Karpeles translated them into English for the first time and wrote the introduction. It is a short book for readers who know Proust and want a fresh angle on him, and for readers drawn to how literature holds up under extreme conditions. It is criticism and testimony at once, closer to a memoir of reading than to a scholarly study.
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Reviewers treat the book as a small classic of both criticism and survival literature. They praise Czapski's recall and the warmth of the lectures, and Karpeles's translation and introduction. Some find it thin as standalone criticism and best read alongside Proust.
This book collects the lectures on Marcel Proust that Polish painter, writer and soldier Józef Czapski gave while a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp during World War II. With only his memory to draw on, he presented Proust's In Search of Lost Time to an audience of fellow inmates.
In the lectures, Czapski describes the arc and import of Proust's work. He sketches major and minor characters in detail and writes about the work's originality, depth and beauty.
This is the first English translation of the lectures. Eric Karpeles is the translator, and he adds an introduction. It explains how Czapski helped his fellow officers remember that a world existed apart from the camp.
