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[A] thought-provoking examination...[Friedlander] is a wise, enthusiastic guide to Proust. --Kirkus Reviews [Friedlander] meditates on the 'extraordinary pull' and hidden depths of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu in this intriguing extended essay...Proust fans will enjoy these appreciative, personal peregrinations through 'one of the most important novels ever written.' --Publishers Weekly [A] personal and idiosyncratic reading of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time...impressive and will certainly draw in a curious literary readership. --Library Journal Saul Friedlander, whose work on memory's critical role in filling in the lacunae of recorded history, has turned his lens on the uses of memory in Proust's extraordinary record of time in books that remain timeless. --Maryanne Wolf, Professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Praise for Saul Friedlander: Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes. --New York Review of Books [Friedlander's] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness...Friedlander succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure. --New York Times Book Review [Friedlander's] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express. --The Guardian

Praise for Saul Friedlander: Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes. --New York Review of Books [Friedlander's] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness...Friedlander succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure. --New York Times Book Review [Friedlander's] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express. --The Guardian

[A] haunting work...Friedlander has always imbued his scholarship with an acute literary sensibility...incisive and quizzical...[an] intimate and subtle book. --Wall Street Journal [A] superb new book...Friedlander, the great historian of Nazi Germany and the Jews and also the author of his own Proustian memoir, When Memory Comes, argues that Proust's narrator is a 'disembodied presence unlike that in any novel before, ' and that it's the relation of that presence to Proust himself that makes the Recherche, with its biting social satire, so unique. --Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year The pleasure of [Proustian Uncertainties] comes from...the author unspooling thoughts and venturing theories collected over many years about a book he clearly loves...By taking a bird's-eye view of the novel, Friedlander notices continuities and contradictions that are hard to see from within the teeming thickets of Proust's prose. --Harper's [An] excellent volume about In Search of Lost Time and Proust himself. --Literary Hub [A] thought-provoking examination...[Friedlander] is a wise, enthusiastic guide to Proust. --Kirkus Reviews [Friedlander] meditates on the 'extraordinary pull' and hidden depths of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu in this intriguing extended essay...Proust fans will enjoy these appreciative, personal peregrinations through 'one of the most important novels ever written.' --Publishers Weekly [A] personal and idiosyncratic reading of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time...impressive and will certainly draw in a curious literary readership. --Library Journal Saul Friedlander, whose work on memory has played a critical role in filling in the lacunae of recorded history, has turned his lens on the uses of memory in Proust's extraordinary record of time in books that remain timeless. --Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World Praise for Saul Friedlander: Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes. --New York Review of Books [Friedlander's] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness...Friedlander succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure. --New York Times Book Review [Friedlander's] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express. --The Guardian

[A] thought-provoking examination...[Friedlander] is a wise, enthusiastic guide to Proust. -Kirkus Reviews [Friedlander] meditates on the 'extraordinary pull' and hidden depths of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu in this intriguing extended essay...Proust fans will enjoy these appreciative, personal peregrinations through 'one of the most important novels ever written.' -Publishers Weekly [A] personal and idiosyncratic reading of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time...impressive and will certainly draw in a curious literary readership. -Library Journal Saul Friedlander, whose work on memory has played a critical role in filling in the lacunae of recorded history, has turned his lens on the uses of memory in Proust's extraordinary record of time in books that remain timeless. -Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World Praise for Saul Friedlander: Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes. -New York Review of Books [Friedlander's] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness...Friedlander succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure. -New York Times Book Review [Friedlander's] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express. -The Guardian

[A] superb new book...Friedlander, the great historian of Nazi Germany and the Jews and also the author of his own Proustian memoir, When Memory Comes, argues that Proust's narrator is a 'disembodied presence unlike that in any novel before, ' and that it's the relation of that presence to Proust himself that makes the Recherche, with its biting social satire, so unique. --Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year The pleasure of [Proustian Uncertainties] comes from...the author unspooling thoughts and venturing theories collected over many years about a book he clearly loves...By taking a bird's-eye view of the novel, Friedlander notices continuities and contradictions that are hard to see from within the teeming thickets of Proust's prose. --Harper's [An] excellent volume about In Search of Lost Time and Proust himself. --Literary Hub [A] thought-provoking examination...[Friedlander] is a wise, enthusiastic guide to Proust. --Kirkus Reviews [Friedlander] meditates on the 'extraordinary pull' and hidden depths of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu in this intriguing extended essay...Proust fans will enjoy these appreciative, personal peregrinations through 'one of the most important novels ever written.' --Publishers Weekly [A] personal and idiosyncratic reading of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time...impressive and will certainly draw in a curious literary readership. --Library Journal Saul Friedlander, whose work on memory has played a critical role in filling in the lacunae of recorded history, has turned his lens on the uses of memory in Proust's extraordinary record of time in books that remain timeless. --Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World Praise for Saul Friedlander: Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes. --New York Review of Books [Friedlander's] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness...Friedlander succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure. --New York Times Book Review [Friedlander's] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express. --The Guardian

[A] haunting work...Friedlander has always imbued his scholarship with an acute literary sensibility...incisive and quizzical...[an] intimate and subtle book. -Wall Street Journal [A] superb new book...Friedlander, the great historian of Nazi Germany and the Jews and also the author of his own Proustian memoir, When Memory Comes, argues that Proust's narrator is a 'disembodied presence unlike that in any novel before,' and that it's the relation of that presence to Proust himself that makes the Recherche, with its biting social satire, so unique. -Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year The pleasure of [Proustian Uncertainties] comes from...the author unspooling thoughts and venturing theories collected over many years about a book he clearly loves...By taking a bird's-eye view of the novel, Friedlander notices continuities and contradictions that are hard to see from within the teeming thickets of Proust's prose. -Harper's [An] excellent volume about In Search of Lost Time and Proust himself. -Literary Hub [A] thought-provoking examination...[Friedlander] is a wise, enthusiastic guide to Proust. -Kirkus Reviews [Friedlander] meditates on the 'extraordinary pull' and hidden depths of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu in this intriguing extended essay...Proust fans will enjoy these appreciative, personal peregrinations through 'one of the most important novels ever written.' -Publishers Weekly [A] personal and idiosyncratic reading of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time...impressive and will certainly draw in a curious literary readership. -Library Journal Saul Friedlander, whose work on memory has played a critical role in filling in the lacunae of recorded history, has turned his lens on the uses of memory in Proust's extraordinary record of time in books that remain timeless. -Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World Praise for Saul Friedlander: Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes. -New York Review of Books [Friedlander's] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness...Friedlander succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure. -New York Times Book Review [Friedlander's] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express. -The Guardian

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Saul Friedl nderis an award-winning Israeli-American historian and currently a professor of history (emeritus) at UCLA. He was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews, grew up in France, and lived in hiding during the German occupation of 1940-1944. His historical works have received great praise and recognition, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his bookThe Years of Extermination- Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.

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