Synopses & Reviews
This wonderful collection of
Marcel Proust's Letters, selected and translated by Mina Curtiss, is both a revelatory introduction to the great writer and a treasure trove for those readers more familiar with "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu." Mina Curtiss especially chose them as apt illustrations of Proust's growing sensibility and intellectual power during the gestation of the novel.
Indeed, many of the characters in the book are drawn from the men and women we meet here. The letters are also exciting as an unfolding panorama of the Belle Epoque and for their superb insights into literature, art and music.
Review
"This book's insights will enjoy wide appeal among those who have read his In Search of Lost Time or any of the books therein. Essential for Proust aficionados everywhere!" Library Journal
Review
"As Adam Gopnik writes in his introduction, here is the true story of how a 'social butterfly became a literary caterpillar.'" Booklist
Synopsis
Beautifully selected, these letters bring us closer to Proust and deepen our understanding of his masterpiece.
About the Author
Marcel Proust was born in Paris in 1871. He studied law at the Sorbonne but was drawn to writing, and published his first work in 1896. After the death of his parents in the early 1900s he gradually withdrew from society, eventually spending the majority of his time in his cork-lined bedroom. In Search of Lost Time is his major work, developed during the last decade of his life. He died in 1922.