Proust'S Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-De-Siecle Paris [Audiobook] download free by Caroline Weber
- Listen audiobook: Proust'S Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-De-Siecle Paris
- Author: Caroline Weber
- Release date: 2018/1/28
- Publisher: KNOPF PUBLISHING GROUP
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780307961785
- Rating: 8.35 of 10
- Votes: 695
- Review by: Ariadne Hughes
- Review rating: 9.49 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/14
- Duration: 9H14M30S in 256 kbps (147.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, Vorbis, WAV, FLAC, TTA, MP3, MPEG4 (compression RAR, LHA, CPIO, TAR.GZ, LZO, ZIP, TAR.BZ2)
- Total pages original book: 736
- Includes a PDF summary of 63 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 47M30S (12.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion-a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe-these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, 'transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style.' All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literature: History & Criticism, Literary Studies: General, European History, Gender Studies: Women, Biography: General
- Download servers: MEGA, Torrent, Memopal, FileInvite, Microsoft OneDrive, FreakShare. Compressed in RAR, LHA, CPIO, TAR.GZ, LZO, ZIP, TAR.BZ2
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 42.97 USD
- Dimensions: 160x239x41mm
- Weight: 1,043g
- Printed by: Not Available
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