A provocative, irreverent study of Marcel Proust's life, work and philosophy, unlike any book of literary criticism in recent memory. Includes extensive citations for the serious scholar or researcher.

With a variety of insights afforded by psychoanalysis, Regency history, and evolutionary theory, (as well as Proust and Casanova and Stendhal), the author recovers a Jane Austen who is unbecoming, adult, entertaining-and truly classic.

This edition replaces the 2001 and 2012 antecedent editions.

This is his newest book.