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On Proust
Book by Jean Francois Revel
- GenresNonfiction
193 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1972
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About the author
Jean-François Revel
82 books106 followersJean-François Revel was a French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française since June 1998.
He was best known for his books Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, The Flight from Truth : The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information and his 2002 book Anti-Americanism, one year after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In the latter book, Revel criticised those Europeans who argued that the United States had brought about the terrorist attacks upon itself through misguided foreign policies. He wrote thus: "Obsessed by their hatred and floundering in illogicality, these dupes forget that the United States, acting in her own self-interest, is also acting in the interest of us Europeans and in the interests of many other countries, threatened, or already subverted and ruined, by terrorism." In 1975 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, The Netherlands, under the title: La tentation totalitaire (The Totalitarian Temptation).
He was best known for his books Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, The Flight from Truth : The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information and his 2002 book Anti-Americanism, one year after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In the latter book, Revel criticised those Europeans who argued that the United States had brought about the terrorist attacks upon itself through misguided foreign policies. He wrote thus: "Obsessed by their hatred and floundering in illogicality, these dupes forget that the United States, acting in her own self-interest, is also acting in the interest of us Europeans and in the interests of many other countries, threatened, or already subverted and ruined, by terrorism." In 1975 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, The Netherlands, under the title: La tentation totalitaire (The Totalitarian Temptation).
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November 14, 2021
A good criticism of Proust and the great novel he wrote. I found the book on a shelf in a used book shop. It is both confusing and insightful. The best insights (and most relevant for me) come in the last three chapters. I’ll need to read again in the near future but it is, overall, a much neglected and important study of Proust.
September 21, 2025
MIL BALA
January 26, 2013
Four stars for the stars, three stars for the "I liked it". It wasn't a "really liked it". But it was 4 star worthy. A unique look into the novel, uneven in its targets but consistent in its fairly prickly anti-orthodox stance and tone. Full review may follow, as I post-it note marked about 13 or 14 pages, including one with a "!" which is very rare for me.
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