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Alla ricerca del tempo perduto. La prigioniera
Traduzione di Paolo Serini . 8vo pp. 380 Rilegato mezza tela (half-cloth binding) Piccola nota alla prima pagina bianca (One note on the first blank page) Molto buono (Very Good)
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Published January 1, 1950
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Marcel Proust
2,162 books7,552 followersMarcel 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.
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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August 24, 2024
Qui è quando Marcel chiede il falò di confronto ad Albertine
January 25, 2025
Marcel Proust
ALLA RICERCA DEL TEMPO PERDUTO
Libro V
La Prigioniera
Sentivo che la mia vita con Albertine era per un lato, quando non ero geloso, nient’altro che noia, e per l’altro, quando ero geloso, nient’altro che sofferenza
"ogni sera, molto tardi, prima di lasciarmi, mi faceva scivolare in bocca la sua lingua come un pane quotidiano, come un cibo nutriente"
ALLA RICERCA DEL TEMPO PERDUTO
Libro V
La Prigioniera
Sentivo che la mia vita con Albertine era per un lato, quando non ero geloso, nient’altro che noia, e per l’altro, quando ero geloso, nient’altro che sofferenza
"ogni sera, molto tardi, prima di lasciarmi, mi faceva scivolare in bocca la sua lingua come un pane quotidiano, come un cibo nutriente"
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