Proust in Black: Los Angeles, a Proustian Fiction

PROUST IN BLACK: Los Angeles: A Proustian Fiction by Fanny Daubigny; translated from the French by Bruce Whiteman

New! From Hyperbole Books, a San Diego State University Press imprint: Fanny Daubigny's PROUST IN BLACK fuses French Literature, cultural studies, film noir, cinema history, and Los Angeles, the City of Angels, in a dynamic synthesis of imagination and invention that remakes cultural criticism in the here and now. With lucid and evocative readings of Proust, Billy Wilder, Hollywood film noir and more, Daubigny emerges as a literature and film studies critic with a compelling vision and a lyrical prose artistry that tracks manifestations of Proust in and across the dark night of Southern California

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"A book about Proust and film noir and Los Angeles, yes, but so much more: it is about fear and desire, about guilt and insomnia, about the 'chiaroscuro of consciousness' in text and film and culture, about the 'aesthetics of fear.' And like a detective searching around dark corners of the city, we are constantly surprised. Buster Keaton joins Robert Wiene and Fritz Lang as an inaugurator of film noir! Pasolini's debt to Proust! Albertine as femme fatale! It is criticism as detection, criticism as collision, criticism as crime, criticism as confession. It is critique noire."

Tom Lutz, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Los Angeles Review of Books