Member Ira Nadel Publishes New Book on Roth and Proust
- Matthew Shipe
- Jun 12
- 1 min read
Congratulations to Ira Nadel on the publication of his new book, Philip Roth: À la recherche de Marcel Proust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
Overview
First book to examine the literary and biographical connections between Marcel Proust and Philip Roth
Sets Proust and Roth against their respective backdrops of European and American social and cultural change
Explores these two authors' preoccupations with memory, the particularity of experience and place
About this book
This work examines the literary and biographical connections between Marcel Proust and Philip Roth against the backdrop of European and American cultural change through a social and literary narrative involving war, literature and fashion. It emphasizes the parallel treatment of memory, place, history, illness, music and sex by Proust and Roth. The authors also possessed a mutual dependence on the past as they discovered their vocation as writers. Proust and the impact of political and social change at the end of the Belle Époque, including WWI, matches Roth and the impact of World War II and the revolutionary sixties, two of many themes and concerns they share.
