{"product_id":"the-seventy-five-folios-and-other-unpublished-manuscripts-9780674301580","title":"The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Book That Shouldn't Be Overlooked\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fascinating...In these drafts, we see the emerging elements of the Recherche as through a glass darkly.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you delight in flickering recollections, glimpses and mirrors, hints and foreshadowings, this is, urgently, the book for you.\" --\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The fascinating, handwritten early drafts of Marcel Proust's cycle \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time, \u003c\/i\u003e discovered in 2018, come to life in Taylor's resplendent translation...This is a magnificent addition to Proust's oeuvre.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe discovery, in 2018, of manuscript pages containing early drafts of Marcel Proust's \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e was one of the most significant literary events in living memory. \u003ci\u003eThe Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e presents these fragments for the first time in English, along with seventeen other brief unpublished texts. Extensive commentary and notes by Proust scholar Nathalie Mauriac Dyer provide insightful critical analysis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA precious guide to understanding Proust's masterpiece, the folios include early versions of six episodes appearing in the novel. Readers also glimpse the autobiographical extent of Proust's writing, with traces of his family life scattered throughout. Before the existence of Charles Swann, we find a narrator named Marcel, a testament to what one scholar has called \"the gradual transformation of lived experience into (auto)fiction in Proust's elaboration of the novel.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike a painter's sketches and a composer's holographs, Proust's folios tell a story of artistic evolution. Here is a literary magnum opus finding its final form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674301580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.88d","brand":"Marcel Proust","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51495055884469,"sku":"9780674301580","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bbd1f492-27d5-4d88-bcaa-b5da6c250464.jpg?v=1754973828","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-seventy-five-folios-and-other-unpublished-manuscripts-9780674301580","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}