Jean Santeuil

Marcel Proust

• Other Authors Gerard Hopkins (Translator), André Maurois (Preface)
• Title

  Jean Santeuil

• Date 1985
• ISBN 9780140072037
• Publisher New York, NY: Penguin Random House
• Description 744 pp; 7.8 in
• Language English (translates from French)
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  In Jean Santeuil, his first novel, Proust explores the interweaving of art and memory which he was to crystallize so dazzingly in A la recherche du temps perdu. 

  On the publication of Jean Santeuil in the 1950s, some thirty years after his death, The Times Literary Supplement wrote that it towers above the dingy landscape of Europe's post-war imagination. It illustrates and makes memorable more than a decade. 

  Drawing on the intense emotional experiences of his youth, he tells the story of boyhood summer of strawberries and cream-cheese, of the garlands or pink blossom under branches of white may, of love and its lies, of political scandal and of his deep feeling for his parents. (Penguin Modern Classics)

• Tags Fiction, French language, French literature