Correspondance - Volume 1

by Marcel Proust

Cette édition de luxe est un évènement littéraire majeur.

Une oeuvre exceptionnelle, annotée et présentée par le professeur Philip Kolb (1907-1992), de l'université de l'Illinois, éminent spécialiste de la correspondance de Marcel Proust, qui a consacré sa vie à rassembler ces lettres.
Elle est présentée par Thierry Laget, spécialiste de l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust, qui a eu l'honneur de travailler aux côtés de Philip Kolb aux États-Unis.
Le volume 1 correspond couvre la période de 1880 à 1904


La nouvelle collection " La Prestigieuse " fait renaître les plus grands textes de la maison Plon : le Journal d'Eugène Delacroix, la Correspondance secrète de Marie-Antoinette, les Mémoires du général de Gaulle, etc.
La correspondance intégrale de Marcel Proust fait l'objet de la première publication de cette collection, dans une édition de luxe à tirage limité.
À l'occasion de l'année du centenaire du décès de Marcel Proust, les éditions Plon ont décidé de mettre en lumière le travail d'orfèvre de Philip Kolb, qui fut publié en vingt et un volumes entre 1970 et 1993.

2120 pages, Paperback

Published November 16, 2023

About the author

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.