Letters to his Neighbor [Audiobook] download free by Marcel Proust
- Listen audiobook: Letters to his Neighbor
- Author: Marcel Proust
- Release date: 2017/8/6
- Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780811224116
- Rating: 8.58 of 10
- Votes: 415
- Review by: Mohammad Schaeffer
- Review rating: 9.98 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/11
- Duration: 1H25M35S in 256 kbps (22.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, WMA, MP3, FLAC, MPEG-4 DST, WavPack, MPEG4 (compression TAR.BZ2, RAR, BZ2, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 112
- Includes a PDF summary of 12 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 8M45S (2.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, his poor soul was not ready for the fresh hell when his neighbor Dr. Williams married a widow with small children.Chiefly 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.'Lydia Davis has written a generous translator's note, tracing much of what we can know about Proust's perpetually dark room; she details the furnishings as well as the life he lived there: burning his powders, talking with friends, hiring musicians, and, most of all, suffering. Letters to His Neighboris richly illustrated with facsimile letters and photographs-catnip for lovers of Proust.With an Introduction by Jean-Yves Tadie and a translator's note by Lydia Davis.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Biography: Literary, Poetry & Drama, Diaries, Letters & Journals
- Download servers: Mediafire, Torrentz2, FileServe, Hotfile, Nubo, Torrent, FreakShare. Compressed in TAR.BZ2, RAR, BZ2, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 20.85 USD
- Dimensions: 160x236x18mm
- Weight: 320g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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