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I settantacinque fogli sono il nucleo originario di Alla ricerca del tempo le primissime pagine che Marcel Proust ne ha scritto. Riuniscono i temi emotivamente e narrativamente più importanti del l’infanzia, la casa di campagna e le sue due passeggiate, il bacio negato della mamma, i soggiorni al mare con le ragazze in fiore, i nobili, Venezia.
Compaiono inoltre figure e momenti poi la morte straziante della mamma, che ritrova in quel momento il viso della giovinezza, e passaggi schiettamente comici (un capriccio del fratellino Robert, una lettera esilarante della nonna).
Cercati a lungo, solo ora sono stati ritrovati, in casa del proustiano e grande editore Bernard de Fallois, scomparso nel 2018. Sono testi molto autobiografici, vicini alla vera vita di Proust – il narratore si chiama Marcel, ma già compare l’“Io” narrante, intimo e universale, che fonda la Recherche. Un maestoso apparato di note della specialista Nathalie Mauriac Dyer (una pronipote di Proust) ricollega questi fogli ai manoscritti successivi, prima che questi passaggi approdino al romanzo come lo e così si chiariscono gli aspetti (come l’omosessualità, l’ebraismo, e molti altri) cui quelle pagine perse alludono. Sono sequenze brevi, ma Proust già scrive pienamente come nel suo capolavoro; la traduzione è stata perciò affidata a una letterata proustiana, Anna Isabella Squarzina; l’introduzione per il pubblico italiano è di Daria Galateria, che ha annotato la prima edizione commentata al mondo della Recherche.
I settantacinque fogli sono uno storico tassello nell’universo proustiano, finalmente rivelato ai lettori italiani.

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Published May 26, 2022

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Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.

Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. He was also plagued with severe asthma, which had troubled him intermittently since childhood, and a terror of his own death, especially in case it should come before his novel had been completed. The first volume, after some difficulty finding a publisher, came out in 1913, and Proust continued to work with an almost inhuman dedication on his masterpiece right up until his death in 1922, at the age of 51.

Today he is widely recognized as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, and À la recherche du temps perdu as one of the most dazzling and significant works of literature to be written in modern times.

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