Pleasures and days
By: Marcel Proust ; translated by Andrew Brown. ; [foreword by A.N. Wilson].
Contributors: Brown, Andrew.
Series: Hesperus classics
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Work titles: Plaisirs et les jours.
Description: "Taking as his setting the glamour and heady sophistication of fin-de-siecle. Parisian salon society, Proust here presents a series of sketches and short stories depicting the lives, love, manners and motivations of a host of characters. Amorous entanglements, idle vanities and feigned morality are all viewed with a characteristically knowing eye. By turns cuttingly satirical and bitterly moving, Proust's portrayals are layered with imagery and feeling, whether they be of the aspiring Bouvard and Pecuchet, the deluded Madame de Breyves, or of Baldassare Silvande saturated with regret, memory and tragic understanding in the face of death."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes biographical references (p. 172).