

The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts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
Categories: Fiction, World Literature, Classic
Synopsis
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.