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Availability:In StockContributor:Marcel Proust, Nathalie Mauriac Dyer (Editor), Sam Taylor (Translator)Publish date:9/9/2025Pages:360
Language:EnglishPublisher:Belknap PressISBN-13:9780674301580ISBN-10:674301587UPC:9780674301580Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, World Literature, LiteraryBook Topic:FranceSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCHMB69TFD

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"Fascinating...In these drafts, we see the emerging elements of the Recherche as through a glass darkly." --The Telegraph

"If you delight in flickering recollections, glimpses and mirrors, hints and foreshadowings, this is, urgently, the book for you." --Literary Review

"The fascinating, handwritten early drafts of Marcel Proust's cycle In Search of Lost Time, discovered in 2018, come to life in Taylor's resplendent translation...This is a magnificent addition to Proust's oeuvre." --Publishers Weekly

The discovery, in 2018, of manuscript pages containing early drafts of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time was one of the most significant literary events in living memory. The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts presents these fragments for the first time in English, along with seventeen other brief unpublished texts. Extensive commentary and notes by Proust scholar Nathalie Mauriac Dyer provide insightful critical analysis.

A precious guide to understanding Proust's masterpiece, the folios include early versions of six episodes appearing in the novel. Readers also glimpse the autobiographical extent of Proust's writing, with traces of his family life scattered throughout. Before the existence of Charles Swann, we find a narrator named Marcel, a testament to what one scholar has called "the gradual transformation of lived experience into (auto)fiction in Proust's elaboration of the novel."

Like a painter's sketches and a composer's holographs, Proust's folios tell a story of artistic evolution. Here is a literary magnum opus finding its final form.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Belknap PressISBN-13:9780674301580ISBN-10:674301587UPC:9780674301580Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, World Literature, LiteraryBook Topic:FranceSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCHMB69TFD
Proust, Marcel: - Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist and essayist, is best known for his seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time.Dyer, Nathalie Mauriac: - Nathalie Mauriac Dyer is a senior researcher at the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts Division of the National Center for Scientific Research in France, where she leads the Proust team. She is the author of Proust inachevé Le dossier Albertine disparue and co-curator of the centenary exhibit Marcel Proust: La fabrique de l'oeuvre at the Bibliothèque Nationale. She is the great-granddaughter of Robert Proust, Marcel's brother.Taylor, Sam: - Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than sixty books from French, including Laurent Binet's HHhH, Leïla Slimani's The Perfect Nanny, and Maylis de Kerangal's The Heart.
Publisher: Belknap Press

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