Justin O'Brien

Philip Malcolm Waller Thody

Albert Camus

Camus' diary and random notes which provided material for his later fiction

Notebooks, 1935-1951

Ann Course

Examines the theories of the prominent semiotologist and critic

Introducing Barthes

Albert Camus, 1913-60

Offers a brief profile of the French, Nobel Prize-winning author, and examines his major works

Some Talking Points

Vercor's Le Silence de la Mer

Some Talking Points. (With Additional Material Presented and Edited by L.D. Bancroft).

Vercors's "Le Silence de la Mer"

A Study of His Work

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Laclos

Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Philip Thody

Jean Genet: a Study of His Novels and Plays

A Conservative Estimate

Roland Barthes

For senior school and university students.

Aldous Huxley: a Biographical Introduction

Albert Camus, 1913-1960

The starting point of A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) is an experience everyone has had. We have all had a physical sensation that has reminded us so vividly of a moment in our past that we have almost ceased to be aware of the present. Marcel Proust immortalized this in the first volume of his fifteen-volume novel, in 1913. But the novel, completed just before his death in 1922, deals with many other themes. It is an account of how the narrator, Marcel, discovers his vocation as an artist and explores the nature of art. As a psychological novel, it studies jealousy and how the emotional traumas we undergo in childhood can influence our adult lives. It is the first major novel to offer a detailed account of male and female homosexuality. It is a satirical analysis of French upper-class society at the turn of the century. It also shows how this society changes with time. Philip Thody offers a straightforward analysis of how Proust's novel is constructed, what it contains, and how its themes can be related to our experiences as members of American or English society in the late twentieth century.

Marcel Proust

Philip Malcolm Waller Thody

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