Letters to His Neighbor - Hardcover

Proust, Marcel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811224112 ISBN 13: 9780811224116

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2017

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Letters to His NeighborChiefly to Mrs. Williams, these ever-polite letters (often accompanied by flowers, compliments, books, even pheasants) are frequently hilarious—Proust couches his fury in a gracious tone. In Lydia Davis’s hands, the digressive brilliance of his sentences shines: “Don't speak of annoying neighbors, but of neighbors so charming (an association of words contradictory in principle since Montesquiou claims that most horrible of all are 1) neighbors 2) the smell of post offices) that they leave the constant tantalizing regret that one cannot take advantage of their neighborliness.”Proust makes fine distinctions among his auditory torments: “The valet de chambre makes noise and that doesn't matter. But later he knocks with little tiny raps.  And that is worse.”Letters to His Neighbor

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Marcel Proust is arguably the most admired writer of the twentieth century.

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance: Stories was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award of Merit Medal, and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust. Lydia Davis is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0811224112
• ISBN 13: 9780811224116
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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