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Proust in Black
Fanny Daubigny
其他書名
Los Angeles, a Proustian Fiction
出版San Diego State University Press, 2019
主題Literary Criticism / General
ISBN19385378159781938537813
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qHvqwQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋PROUST IN BLACK: Los Angeles: A Proustian Fictionby Fanny Daubigny; translated from the French by Bruce Whiteman"A book about Proust and film noir and Los Angeles, yes, but so much more: it is about fear and desire, about guilt and insomnia, about the 'chiaroscuro of consciousness' in text and film and culture, about the 'aesthetics of fear.' And like a detective searching around dark corners of the city, we are constantly surprised. Buster Keaton joins Robert Wiene and Fritz Lang as an inaugurator of film noir! Pasolini's debt to Proust! Albertine as femme fatale! It is criticism as detection, criticism as collision, criticism as crime, criticism as confession. It is critique noire."Tom Lutz, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Los Angeles Review of Books"It is a tour de force of dexterous and poetically rendered cross-referencing. In Proust in Black Fanny Daubigny has composed a multi-layered cultural exchange between the country of France and the City of Los Angeles. The polarities, oddly drawn toward each other, will involve, on the French end, the great literary masterpiece of its age, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and from the U.S. seaside dream city, L.A.'s body of films noir, those darkly gorgeous, cheaply made black and white crime movies from the 40s and 50s. At the center of all this is Desire. At the center of all this are the fluid permutations of memory, persistent yet illusive, and (as Elizabeth Bishop once said of another intangible essence, knowledge) 'flowing and flown.'"Suzanne Lummis, L.A. Noir PoetHYPERBOLE BOOKS AN IMPRINT OF SDSU PRESSISBN-10: 1-938537-81-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-81-3 $30.95 USA SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION ARCHIVAL PAPER EDITION