Lettres à Reynaldo Hahn

Écrit par Marcel Proust

Raconté par Michel Fau

Marcel Proust avait 23 ans lorsqu'il rencontra le musicien Reynaldo Hahn dans le salon parisien de Mme Madeleine Lemaire, en 1894. Les deux jeunes gens ignoraient alors qu'ils deviendraient pour le premier, l'un des plus grands écrivains français et pour l'autre, l'un des compositeurs les plus courus du XXe siècle. Pendant deux ans, ils vont s'aimer, et ils garderont toute leur vie une amitié et une intimité indéfectibles.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes
• Date de sortie: 2 mars 2011
• ISBN: 9791025602027

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist. Born in Auteuil, France at the beginning of the Third Republic, he was raised by Adrien Proust, a successful epidemiologist, and Jeanne Clémence, an educated woman from a wealthy Jewish Alsatian family. At nine, Proust suffered his first asthma attack and was sent to the village of Illiers, where much of his work is based. He experienced poor health throughout his time as a pupil at the Lycée Condorcet and then as a member of the French army in Orléans. Living in Paris, Proust managed to make connections with prominent social and literary circles that would enrich his writing as well as help him find publication later in life. In 1896, with the help of acclaimed poet and novelist Anatole France, Proust published his debut book Les plaisirs et les jours, a collection of prose poems and novellas. As his health deteriorated, Proust confined himself to his bedroom at his parents’ apartment, where he slept during the day and worked all night on his magnum opus In Search of Lost Time, a seven-part novel published between 1913 and 1927. Beginning with Swann’s Way (1913) and ending with Time Regained (1927), In Search of Lost Time is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction in which Proust explores the nature of memory, the decline of the French aristocracy, and aspects of his personal identity, including his homosexuality. Considered a masterpiece of Modernist literature, Proust’s novel has inspired and mystified generations of readers, including Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene, and Somerset Maugham.