Les Plaisirs et les jours

By Marcel Proust

Book Overview

This was Proust's first published work, appearing when he was only twenty-five, and it consists of stories, sketches and thematic writings on a variety of subjects. The attitudes reflect many of the characteristics of the "fin de siecle," yet Proust illumined them with the unique shafts of observation and gift of analysis that he was later to perfect in "The Remembrance of Things Past." This book is a period piece of intricate delights and subtle flavours that will be relished by the author's many admirers

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880010630
• ISBN13: 9780880010634
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A fine (but slightly incomplete) translation

I haven't had a chance to read this early work by Marcel Proust yet, but if you're interested in buying a copy, it's worth knowing that while A.N. Wilson, translator of the Hesperus Press edition, reports having used "with profit" this "fine translation" by Louise Varese, this edition does not include the poems entitled "Portrits of Painters and Musicians", but the Hesperus Press edition does so. Also included in the Hesperus Press edition but missing from this one are translations of the preface by Anatole France, and the dedication to Willie Heath.