Cartas escogidas (1888-1922)

Marcel Proust was, from his earliest youth until his death in 1922, a meticulous and prolific correspondent: he wrote to relatives, family, friends, defenders of his work and even his greatest detractors. In the thousands of letters he sent, in which the register and style are masterfully adapted to the recipient, he deals with the most varied topics, memories and intimate confessions, impressions on readings, negotiations with his editors, comments on current politics, which They subtly outline many of the episodes and motifs that would feed his magnum opus, In Search of Lost Time. This selection brings together nearly two hundred letters written by Proust from adolescence to his last days, thus offering a vivid portrait of the writer, his world, and his time. The reader has in his hands a fascinating reading guide for a masterpiece of European literature in which the writer, in the words of an admired Beckett, "discovers himself as an artist in creative and destructive Time", as a privileged witness the twilight of an age and the shining harbinger of a new one.