プルースト最後の付き人アーネスト・Ａ・フォルスグレンの回想 The Memoirs of Ernest A. Forssgren : Proust's Swedish Valet

Forssgren, Ernest/ Carter, William C. (EDT)

Yale University Press（2006/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 192 p.／サイズ 8 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780300114638
• DDC分類 843.912

基本説明

The memoirs of Ernest A. Forssgren, the young Swede who served as Marcel Proust's last valet, have neve before been published in full. This book presents the complete text (which was written in English), with an introduction and annotations by the distinguished Proust scholar William C. Carter.

Full Description

The memoirs of Ernest Forssgren (1894-1970), the young Swede who served as Marcel Proust's last valet, provide new insights into Proust's life and death. Previously, Forssgren's memoir has been published only in excerpts, in French, with serious omissions and alterations. 
 This book presents the complete text of the memoir, with an introduction and helpful annotations by the distinguished Proust scholar William C. Carter. Also included here is other new material: the inscriptions that Proust wrote for Forssgren's copy of Swann's Way; an important telegram that Proust sent Forssgren, which defines with greater precision the novelist's activities in the final months of his life; Forssgren's "Summary" of the first English biography of Proust, by George D. Painter, which provides many new details about Proust's last trip to Cabourg in 1914 and his attempts at seducing young men of the servant class; and the notes that Forssgren made in his copy of Painter's biography.