Proust
Jul 2026 · Faber & Faber
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An electrifying analysis of one legendary giant of twentieth-century literature by another: Beckett on Proust.
The whole of Proust's world comes out of a teacup . . .
When he was only 25, Samuel Beckett published his first ever book: an electrifying dissection of Marcel Proust's masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu.
Habit, memory and time: these are the defining characteristics of the human condition. Involuntary memories - like those prompted by Proust's famous madeleine - are radical moments that pierce the veil of habit, and offer inspiration that soothes the existential anguish of time passing.
Through analysing Proust's technique, the young Beckett puts forth a blazing artistic manifesto for his own future works, such as Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The result is a totemic meeting of literary minds that illuminates the imaginations of two creative geniuses.
*Read in a new audiobook edition by Eimear McBride*
The whole of Proust's world comes out of a teacup . . .
When he was only 25, Samuel Beckett published his first ever book: an electrifying dissection of Marcel Proust's masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu.
Habit, memory and time: these are the defining characteristics of the human condition. Involuntary memories - like those prompted by Proust's famous madeleine - are radical moments that pierce the veil of habit, and offer inspiration that soothes the existential anguish of time passing.
Through analysing Proust's technique, the young Beckett puts forth a blazing artistic manifesto for his own future works, such as Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The result is a totemic meeting of literary minds that illuminates the imaginations of two creative geniuses.
*Read in a new audiobook edition by Eimear McBride*
An electrifying analysis of one legendary giant of twentieth-century literature by another: Beckett on Proust.
The whole of Proust's world comes out of a teacup . . .
When he was only 25, Samuel Beckett published his first ever book: an electrifying dissection of Marcel Proust's masterpiece À...
About the author
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and moved to Paris as a young man. He wrote prose works, plays and poetry that express a distinctively bleak, tragicomic view of humankind, unable or unwilling to comprehend its paralyzed condition. The success in 1953 of his play En attendant Godot ( Waiting for Godot) secured his international literary reputation and in 1961 he shared the Prix Formentor with Jorge Luis Borges. In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Paris in 1989.
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and moved to Paris as a young man. He wrote prose works, plays and poetry that express a distinctively bleak, tragicomic view of humankind, unable or unwilling to comprehend its paralyzed condition. The success in 1953 of his play En attendant Godot ( Wai...
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