{"product_id":"marcel-proust-on-reading-ruskin","title":"Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYale University Press, 2009, Softcover, 246 pages, 20.32 x 12.7 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly in his career, Marcel Proust, who greatly admired John Ruskin, published translations of two works by the English critic – \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLa Bible d’Amiens\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1900) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSésame et les Lys\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1906). He wrote a substantial preface to each book and provided discursive notes that were themselves often small essays. Rare now, even in their French versions, the preface to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLa Bible d’Amiens\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the notes to both books have never before been available in English. In bringing them together with the preface to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSésame et les Lys\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this new book completes the translation into English of the important critical writings of Proust.\u003cbr\u003e\"Expertly edited and translated and . . . introduced by a brilliant forty-page essay and a fascinating bibliographical note by Richard Macksey. It is an event for celebration. . . . Proust emerges from these essays and notes as one of the truly great critics.\"―Gabriel Josipovici, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A welcome addition to English-language Proust texts and, I think, one long overdue.\"―Germain Brée, Kenan Professor Emerita, Wake Forest University \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58257044111744,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/51qlKVq7COL._SL1360.jpg?v=1781276801","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/marcel-proust-on-reading-ruskin","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}