Letters to the lady upstairs / Marcel Proust ; translated and with an afterword by Lydia Davis ; text edited and annotated by Estelle Gaudry and Jean-Yves Tadié ; with a foreword by Jean-Yves Tadié.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London : 4th Estate, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xix, 89 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780008262891
  • 9780008262891
Uniform titles:
  • Correspondence. Selections. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 846.9 PRO 2017 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ2631.R63 Z48 2017b
Contents:
Letter 1 -- Letter 2 -- Letter 3 -- Letter 4 -- Letter 5 -- Letter 6 -- Letter 7 -- Letter 8 -- Letter 9 -- Letter 10 -- Letter 11 -- Letter 12 -- Letter 13 -- Letter 14 -- Letter 15 -- Letter 16 -- Letter 17 -- Letter 18 -- Letter 19 -- Letter 20 -- Letter 21 -- Letter 22 -- Letter 23 -- Letter 24 -- Letter 25 -- Letter 26.
Summary: "A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs. Written by Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this precious discovery of letters reveals the comings and goings of a Paris building, as seen through Proust's eyes. You'll read of the effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and writing; and, above all, of a growing, touching friendship between two lonely souls."--Publisher's description.
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Book Book INES Library 840- Literatures of Romance language 846.9 PRO 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2020-0032

First published in France as: Lettres à sa voisine by Éditions Gallimard in 2013.

Published in the US as "Letters to his neighbor" by New Directions, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Letter 1 -- Letter 2 -- Letter 3 -- Letter 4 -- Letter 5 -- Letter 6 -- Letter 7 -- Letter 8 -- Letter 9 -- Letter 10 -- Letter 11 -- Letter 12 -- Letter 13 -- Letter 14 -- Letter 15 -- Letter 16 -- Letter 17 -- Letter 18 -- Letter 19 -- Letter 20 -- Letter 21 -- Letter 22 -- Letter 23 -- Letter 24 -- Letter 25 -- Letter 26.

"A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs. Written by Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this precious discovery of letters reveals the comings and goings of a Paris building, as seen through Proust's eyes. You'll read of the effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and writing; and, above all, of a growing, touching friendship between two lonely souls."--Publisher's description.

Translated from the French.

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