THE SEVENTY-FIVE FOLIOS AND OTHER UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS Hardcover

"The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts" offers a rare and profound glimpse into the creative genesis of Marcel Proust's monumental work, In Search of Lost Time. This collection, presented for the first time in English, contains recently discovered early drafts of six key episodes from the novel, along with seventeen other brief, unpublished texts. Discovered among the private papers of the late publisher Bernard de Fallois, these manuscripts put an end to a decades-long search for the "Proustian grail," revealing the autobiographical origins of characters and scenes that would later become iconic. Accompanied by extensive commentary and notes from Proust scholar Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, this volume allows readers to witness "the sacred moment" when one of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures began to shape his masterpiece, akin to examining a painter's preliminary sketches or a composer's early holographs.