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"[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderfulâwonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."âJohn Updike
"Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. ThisâŠ
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Howard Moss brings a poetâs grasp of the ineffable to this enchanting study of Proust. His commentaries on the novelistâs use of psychology and philosophy, on habit and memory, are remarkable contributions to our understanding. He writes about In Search of Lost Time as âa total vision, not relying on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write The Divine Comedy using only the facts of his own existence, without any reference to Christianity.â Moss was poetry editor at The New Yorker for almost forty years. A small gem.
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