{"product_id":"marcel-proust-jean-santeuil","title":"Marcel Proust \/\/ Jean Santeuil","description":"\u003cp\u003ePreface by André Maurois. Translation from the French by Gerard Hopkins of the 1952 book Jean Santeuil (Gallimard).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProust (1871–1922) wrote Jean Santeuil between 1896 and 1899, well before his masterpiece La Recherche (In Search of Lost Time), with which it shares many themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfinished and unmistakably autobiographical, the book was published some thirty years after his death. Its first edition resulted from Bernard de Fallois’s painstaking work sorting and transcribing hundreds of scattered manuscript pages that had been left in storage, and in no particular order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubsequent editions — notably the 1971 Pléiade (Gallimard) volume — proposed a different organization of the material, removing some of de Fallois’s editorial transitions and reshaping the chapter structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean Santeuil is a fascinating read, whether before or after La Recherche: it offers a vivid glimpse into the long creative process Proust went through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fine copy, with a dust jacket in near-fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Livres Dalleau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53978527531292,"sku":"756","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/6789\/9676\/files\/JeanSanteuil_1.jpg?v=1773441240","url":"https:\/\/livresdalleau.com\/products\/marcel-proust-jean-santeuil","provider":"Livres Dalleau","version":"1.0","type":"link"}