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One of the great biographies of our time, Painter's two-volume portrait of Proust was first issued in 1959 and is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is a pleasure to have it back in print in a handsome, bulky one-volume paperback. Lovers of Proust's great novel will, of course, have read it, if only to relate the characters of A la recherche du temps perdu to the men and women who crowded Proust's own extraordinary life (this is surely the most autobiographical of novels). But this is also a book for the casual reader. Painter's insight is matched by his wit. The complex relationship between fact and fiction, characters in the book and characters in life, is convincing and illuminating. Those who have thought life two short for those wonderful seven volumes may read the biography simply as an account of an extraordinary man - and for the innumerable anecdotes of Parisian life between 1880 and 1920, which are told with a flair and a wit which matches the original actors in the comedy of Proust's existence. (Kirkus UK)
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