TY  - BOOK
AU  - Czapski,Józef
AU  - Karpeles,Eric
TI  - Lost time: lectures on Proust in a Soviet prison camp 
SN  - 9781681372587 (softcover)
AV  - PQ 2631 C998l 2018
U1  - 843/.912 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Review Books
KW  - Proust, Marcel, 
KW  - Proust, Marcel,
KW  - Prisoners' writings, Polish
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "An NYRB original"--Page [4] of cover
"First published in the French language as Proust contre la decheance: conférences au camp du Griazowietz by Les Editions Noir sur Blanc"--Title page verso
N2  - "The first translation of painter and writer Jozef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, in the heart of the malevolent Soviet Union, a Polish prisoner of war brought Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu to life without a single page of text available for reference. Presenting a series of lectures in an attempt to distract his fellow officers from their collective misery, Jozef Czapski managed to revive the novel and his experience of reading it purely from memory. It was a clarifying moment for him, a Proustian moment. His talks were given in French, helping to focus the men's minds and distract their thoughts from their grim surroundings. Calling upon deep reserves of aesthetic knowledge and critical thinking in a variety of languages, Czapski offered aspects of Proust's story, like Scheherazade, night after night. His lectures are a testament to the survival of memories of both worlds woven together, the fictional Faubourg Saint-Germain and the actual Soviet prison camp"--
ER  -