Letters to His Neighbor - Couverture souple

Proust, Marcel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811238644 ISBN 13 : 9780811238649

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2026

Synopsis

Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, Proust's poor soul was not ready for the fresh hell of his new upstairs neighbor, Dr. Williams, a dentist with a thriving practice directly above his head.

Chiefly to Mme Williams, these ever-polite letters (often accompanied by flowers, books, or compliments) are frequently hilarious--Proust couches his pained frustration in gracious eloquence. In Lydia Davis's hands, the digressive brilliance of his sentences shines: "Don't speak of annoying neighbors, but of neighbors so charming (an association of words contradictory in principle since Montesquiou claims that most horrible of all are 1: neighbors and 2: the smell of post offices) that they leave the constant tantalizing regret that one cannot take advantage of their neighborliness." Richly illustrated with facsimile letters and photographs, Letters to His Neighbor is catnip for lovers of Proust.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics," said Marcel Proust, one of the most admired and important writers of the twentieth century.

Lydia Davis, a MacArthur Fellow, is the author of Our Strangers and The Collected Stories and the translator of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811238644
• ISBN 13: 9780811238649
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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