The SeventyFive Folios and Other Unp..., Marcel Proust
The SeventyFive Folios and Other Unp..., Marcel Proust
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The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts

Author: Marcel Proust, Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, Sam Taylor

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/19/2023


Synopsis

One of the most significant literary events of the century, the discovery of manuscript pages containing early drafts of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time put an end to a decades-long search for the Proustian grail. The Paris publisher Bernard de Fallois claimed to have viewed the folios, but doubts about their existence emerged when none appeared in the Proust manuscripts bequeathed to the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1962. The texts had in fact been hidden among Fallois's private papers, found upon his death in 2018. The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts presents these folios here for the first time in English, along with seventeen other brief unpublished texts. Extensive commentary and notes by the Proust scholar Nathalie Mauriac Dyer offer insightful critical analysis.

Characterized by Fallois as the "precious guide" to understanding Proust's masterpiece, the folios contain early versions of six episodes included in the novel. Listeners glimpse what Proust's biographer Jean-Yves Tadié describes as the "sacred moment" when the great work burst forth for the first time. The folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust's writing, with traces of his family life scattered throughout. Like a painter's sketches, Proust's folios tell a story of artistic evolution. Here is a literary magnum opus finding its final form.

About Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time, which was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. His writings were published in numerous literary magazines, including Le Mensuel and La Revue Blanche, and he also authored the posthumously published Jean Santeuil.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kath Leco C on September 01, 2022

4,5 🌟 Una infancia tétrica que dio paso a una imaginación y bestseller inigualable.......more

Goodreads review by Deece on November 10, 2022

I'm not sure what I was expecting. First we read the 75 folios, then there was a discussion on them. this was followed by critique and commentary by Nathalie Mauriac Dyer. Perhaps I expected less academic essay, more genuine surge of joy by a scholar at the finding of lost manuscripts. Much was made......more

Goodreads review by Ann on September 28, 2023

"Still, the claim that literary works are enriched by their earlier states—by the material their authors discarded—seems to me a dubious proposition, or at least one that should be confined to the genetic critic’s playground and not take over the city." -Peter Brooks Read the full review here: https:......more

Goodreads review by Dony on December 28, 2024

Los "Papeles inesperados" de Proust en una prolija edición argentina.......more

Goodreads review by James on May 25, 2023

Lyrical prose, meandering plot lines, vivid aesthetic settings imbued with sensory details, and an eclectic combination of concepts kept me engaged and immersed in early twentieth-century Europe throughout the seventy-five folios comprised of six short stories.......more