Jealousy: Vintage Minis

Jealousy: Vintage Minis

by Marcel Proust (Author), Marcel Proust (Author), Marcel Proust (Author), D. J. Enright (Primary Contributor), C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator)

Synopsis

Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first love. There is no greater chronicler of jealousy's darkest fears and destructive suspicions than Proust. Selected from the book In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Desire by Haruki Murakami Eating by Nigella Lawson Home by Salman Rushdie Babies by Anne Enright

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More Information

Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 96
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Jun 2017

ISBN 10: 1784872695
ISBN 13: 9781784872694
Book Overview: Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between

Media Reviews
Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful... The experience of reading [the book] becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing * Independent *
Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world's most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human... They look good and read well. That's win/win in our book. * Stylist *
Author Bio
Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1899, however, his suffering from chronic asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillusionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his great work.