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The Mysterious Correspondent
- Author
- Marcel Proust
- Narrator
- Simon Vance
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 3 June 2021
- Run Time
- 2 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen—the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his themes in preparation for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time; another is that the stories were too audacious—too near to life—for the censorious society of the time.
In these stories, published here for the first time, we find an intimate picture of a young author full of darkness and melancholy, longing to reveal his true self to the world.
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Details
- Author
- Marcel Proust
- Narrator
- Simon Vance
- Duration
- 2 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9781705290644
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Anthologies: general, Short stories, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Newly discovered stories from one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century.Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen—the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his themes in preparation for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time; another is that the stories were too audacious—too near to life—for the censorious society of the time.In these stories, published here for the first time, we find an intimate picture of a young author full of darkness and melancholy, longing to reveal his true self to the world.
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