Paradise Lost: What happens when a writer longs for the place he called home?

Jewish Exponent | August 10, 2000| | Copyright

Leiter, Robert
Jewish Exponent
08-10-2000
Paradise Lost: What happens when a writer longs for the place he called
home?

Andre Aciman is the most determinedly Proustian writer since Elizabeth
Bowen.

Being a Proustian means, at heart, feeling deeply the loss of a childhood
paradise that can never be regained and that haunts one's life -- or the
lives of one's characters -- forever, determining patterns of behavior and
even states of psychological being. Most of Proust's massive novel, In
Search of Lost Time, concerns a series of losses that propel the narrator,
Marcel, out into the world and into a ...

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