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Proust, a Jewish Way

By (author) Antoine Compagnon, Translated by Jody Gladding

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Marcel Proust once wrote, â€œThere is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parentsâ€™ grave.â€ Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight into the great authorâ€™s underappreciated Jewish side. Compagnon traces Proustâ€™s ties to the French Jewish community, examining his relations with his motherâ€™s successful and assimilated family, the Weils. He explores how French Jews read and responded to Proustâ€™s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time in the 1920s and 1930s. Challenging contemporary critics who perceive self-hatred or even antisemitism in Proustâ€™s work, Compagnon shows that many Jewish intellectuals and young Zionists admired and vigorously debated the novel, some seeing it as a source for pride in their Jewish identity. He also considers Proustâ€™s portrayal of homosexuality and how it relates to notions of Jewishness. A work of remarkable erudition and deep research, Proust, a Jewish Way brings to light the vanished world of Proustâ€™s first Jewish readers and shows how it can illuminate our reading of the great novelist today.

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