Translation of Memories: Recollections of the Young Proust
By (Author) Marcel Proust
Peter Owen Publishers
Peter Owen Publishers
1st April 2000
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
843.912
Hardback
272
In 1896 Marie Nordlinger arrived in Paris to study painting. Her cousin, Reynaldo Hahn, was becoming kno wn as a composer and his friend Marcel Proust was an aspirin g novelist. P.F. Prestwich recounts the relationship between these young people. '
"It has a timeless fairytale quality . . . The writing is zestful and broadly humorous, the philosophy that of a French D.H. Lawrence." "Sunday Times""