MARCEL PROUST: A LIFE.(Review)

American Scholar | March 22, 2000| | Copyright

MARCEL PROUST: A LIFE By William C. Carter. Yale University Press. $35.

The most wicked pleasure that biography can provide is the threat of its subject's failure. Somewhere between the sepia image of birth and the final tableau of the deathbed, a gifted biographer must throw a series of obstacles, false starts, and culs-de-sac in his hero's way. The effect is like a suspense movie: we know the correct ending; we are always many steps ahead of the protagonist; and we want to scream at him not to go astray. In this respect, few writers are better suited to biography ...

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