Les plaisirs et les jours

Pleasures and Days
Author Marcel Proust
Original title Les Plaisirs et les Jours
Country France
Language French
Genre Modernist
Publication date
 1896

Les Plaisirs et les Jours is a collection of prose poems and novellas by Marcel Proust. It was first published in 1896 by Calmann-Lévy, and was Proust’s first publication.[1]

The critic Léon Blum said of the book, "Nouvelles mondaines, histoires tendres, vers mélodiques, fragments où la précision du trait s'atténue dans la grâce molle de la phrase, M. Proust a réuni tous les genres et tous les charmes. Aussi les belles dames et les jeunes gens liront avec un plaisir ému un si beau livre."[2] Google translates this as, "New worlds, tender histories, melodic verses, fragments in which the precision of the line is attenuated in the soft grace of the phrase, M. Proust has united all genres and all charms. So the beautiful ladies and the young people will read with such pleasure a beautiful book."

References

  1. ↑ Daum, Pierre (January 1997). "The Modern Language Review". The Modern Language Review: 203–204.
  2. ↑ France Culture. Accessed 18 Sept 2014
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