Prousts erste Veröffentlichung "Les plaisirs et les jours" (1892, unter dem Titel "Tage der Freuden" 1926 auf Deutsch erschienen) enthält eine Sammlung von Erzählungen und Prosaskizzen des damals erst zwanzigjährigen Autors. Die Texte blieben von der Kritik lange unbeachtet oder wurden - gemessen an Prousts späterem Erfolg "Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit" - als eher schwaches Werk bewertet. Erst André Gide hat auf die zahlreichen Paral...
La corrispondenza di Proust con la madre è destinata ad occupare un posto di assoluto rilievo nell'intera bibliografia proustiana. Si tratta peraltro della prima raccolta importante che si sia pubblicata sino ad oggi, nella cornice della quale figurino, accanto alle lettere di Proust, anche quelli dei suoi destinatari. L'interesse per questo corpus epistolare è poi accresciuto dal fatto che in queste lettere si rivolge alla persona che ha più ...
La comunione con l'universo misterioso della pagina scritta è sempre carica di ricordi. E Proust, maestro della rievocazione, fa di questa esperienza un racconto perfetto, in cui la felicità infantile della lettura e la benedizione adulta della memoria, custodita tra le pagine di un libro letto in anni lontani, si rivelano nella loro maestosa dolcezza. Ma leggere è anche indissolubile compagno dello scrivere, per il quale costituisce un'essenz...
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine.
A la sombra de las muchachas en flor es el segundo tomo de la obra cumbre de la literatura del siglo XX, En busca del tiempo perdido. Tras ser publicado en 1919, recibió el prestigioso premio Goncourt, otorgando gran fama y reconocimiento a su autor. En este volumen, las reminiscencias del narrador de Por el camino de Swann discurren entre la infancia y la adolescencia. Volviéndose poco a poco indiferente a la hija de Swann, Gilberte, el narra...
In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. This is Part 1. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette, and their daughter, Gilberte, becomes the adolescent narrator's playmate and tantalizing love-object. We move from Paris to the seaside town of Balbec, from ritualized social performances to midsummer spontaneity, and from Gilberte to her successor Al...
The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time, " also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past, " "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of th...
Modern romanin öncülerinden Marcel Proust bu kez elestiri, deneme, inceleme, aciklama, mektup biciminde kaleme aldigi Edebiyat ve Sanat Yazilariyla karsimiza cikiyor. Edebiyat Yazilarinda Flaubert, Baudelaire, Chateaubriand, Goethe, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, sembolist sairler, siir ya da esrarengiz yasalar, vb. yorumlanirken, Sanat Yazilarinda Chardin, Rembrandt, Watteau, Moreau, Monet gibi ressamlar, Saint-Sans, Reynaldo Hahn gibi müzisyenler, ve...
In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the ...
Sodom and Gomorrah" opens a new phase of "In Search of Lost Time." While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes's orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. "Flower and plant have no conscious will, " Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust's representation of sexuality. "They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of righ...
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