TY - BOOK ID - 18374587 TI - Proust in love PY - 2006 SN - 9780300108125 0300108125 9786611734695 1281734691 0300134886 9780300134889 9781281734693 6611734694 PB - London ; New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Homosexuality and literature KW - Novelists, French KW - Sexual behavior. KW - Proust, Marcel, KW - Sexual behavior KW - French novelists KW - Prust, Marselʹ, KW - Proust, Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel, KW - Pʻŭrusŭtʻŭ, Marŭsel, KW - Pʻu-lu-ssu-tʻe, KW - Пруст, Марсель, KW - פרוסט, מארסל KW - פרוסט, מרסל KW - ,פרוסט, מרסל KW - بروست، مارسيل،, KW - Proust, Marcel UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18374587 AB - The acclaimed Proust biographer William C. Carter portrays Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of Proust in love, Carter also shows how the author's experiences became major themes in his novel In Search of Lost Time. Carter discusses Proust's adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought after the journalist Jean Lorrain alluded to his homosexuality in print, his flirtations with respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with young men of the servant class. With new revelations about Proust's love life and a gallery of photographs, the book provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust's gay Paris. ER -