Francois Le Champi

Excerpt from Francois Le Champi This story of F rangois Ie Champi, which George Sand tried to tell in a language and a style that should appeal equally well to the Parisian and the peasant, seems spe cially well adapted to the needs of those who are near the beginning of their study of the French language. It has been edited with that point in view. The notes contain as much syntactical explanation as the editor dared include. The vocabulary has been prepared with special care. The English equivalents of each word have been given with reference in each case to the con texts in which it occurs. Abundant equivalents have been given also for the idiomatic expressions. Finally, at the end of each chapter or chapters of the story a resume in English has been given, which the student may turn back into French. The editor has sought to gather up in these resumes the most colloquial and usable expressions of the pages from which they are taken. The main object, however, has been not so much to furnish materials for French composition, as to exercise the student in scanning rather more closely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.

In Proust and Emotion, Inge Crosman Wimmers proposes a new approach to A la recherche du temps perdu that centres on the role of affect. Through close reading of the hero-narrator's personal history, the author shows how emotional paradigms (especially separation anxiety), involuntary memory, and other compelling impressions give focus and structure to Proust's novel. Drawing on reader-oriented and emotion theories, she shows how affect commands the attention of the 'motivated reader' and is crucial to the process of self-understanding for both the narrator and the reader. This is the first extensive study in English to take fully into consideration the drafts (esquisses) published in the new Pléiade edition of the novel, the Mauriac edition of Albertine disparue, and material from the unpublished Proust manuscripts - all of which shed further light on the importance of affect in A la recherche. Proust and Emotion will appeal to readers interested in an approach to Proust that combines insights from philosophy, psychology, and literary aesthetics and in a poetics of reading that pays particular attention to emotion.