La Prisonniere

by Marcel Proust

Overview

La Prisonnière est le cinquième tome d'À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust publié en 1925 à titre posthume. Le thème principal de ce volume est l'amour possessif et jaloux qu'éprouve le narrateur pour Albertine. Il la fait surveiller, la soupçonne de liaisons homosexuelles, essaie de la retenir chez lui.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781533570314
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/02/2016
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born in Auteuil, France. In his twenties, following a year in the army, he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1899, however, his chronic asthma, the death of his parents, and his growing disillusionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. From 1907 on, he rarely emerged from a cork-lined room in his apartment on boulevard Haussmann. There he insulated himself against the distractions of city life and the effects of trees and flowers—though he loved them, they brought on his attacks of asthma. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of In Search of Lost Time.

Date of Birth:

July 10, 1871

Date of Death:

November 18, 1922

Place of Birth:

Auteuil, near Paris, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Editorial Reviews

Review - French Le cinquieme volume d'A la recherche du temps perdu, paru en 1923, est le premier des trois posthumes. Il repose sur un etrange huis clos, entre Albertine, prisonniere insaisissable, et le heros, qui s'enferme dans l'enfer de la jalousie, mais s'approche sans le savoir du moment ou va eclore sa vocation d'ecrivain. Aussi la psychologie du reclus s'ouvre-t-elle au monde de l'art, et Proust met au service de cet itineraire sa culture encyclopedique. Un large releve de variantes, partant du manuscrit au net et remontant dans les cahiers anterieurs, revele un artisan reflechi de la phrase. L'abondante annotation explicative reconstitue l'archeologie d'un roman en resonance avec tout le patrimoine europeen.

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