Proust’s novel seen through its paintings
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Praised by Art in America as “visually stunning” and accessible
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Proust’s novel seen through its paintings
Eric Karpeles’s visual companion brings together two strands of *In Search of Lost Time*: its references to specific works of art and its use of paintings to evoke characters. The publisher description points to Bloch, whose boyhood appearance is compared with Gentile Bellini’s portrait of Mehmet II, as one example of that connection. The book offers an art-focused way into the visual references embedded in Proust’s novel.
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A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Not only are there frequent references to specific works of art, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings. Bloch's appearance as a boy is likened to the portrait of Mehmet II by Gentile Bellini; Odette de Cr
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