Letters to His Neighbor - Rilegato

Proust, Marcel

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0811224112 ISBN 13: 9780811224116

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2017

Riassunto

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0811224112
• ISBN 13: 9780811224116
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 110
• Redattore: Gaudry Estelle, Tadie Jean-Yves
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile