by Marcel Proust · Sodis · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070380510
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«À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs» is the novel by Marcel Proust, second volume of «A la recherche du temps perdu», published by Folio classique in paperback (568 pages, in French).
The narrator recalls his adolescence and his first approach to love and artistic creation. Between Paris and the Normandy coast, he observes the social games of the upper bourgeoisie and falls in love with Gilberte, daughter of the Swanns, and then with Albertine, one of the girls in bloom he meets in Balbec. The work alternates the chronicle of worldly appearances with a reflection on jealousy, desire and involuntary memory.
Second volume of «À la recherche du temps perdu», preceded by «Du côté de chez Swann». This paperback edition from the Folio classique collection includes a preface by Pierre-Louis Rey and belongs to the Folio series no. 1946.
For readers of classic French fiction who want to continue in French their journey through Proust's monumental work.
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
