Proust as Musician

Jean-Jacques Nattiez author Derrick Puffett translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Mar '89

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Studying texts devoted to the Sonata and Septet of Vinteui, Nattiez demonstrates the fundamental role played by music in the evolution of the novel.

Studying the texts devoted to the Sonata and Septet of Vinteui, Nattiez demonstrates the fundamental role played by music in the evolution of the novel. 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.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.

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

ISBN: 9780521363495

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 14mm

Weight: 299g

140 pages