Jean Santeuil 1+2
Band 1 + 2 Freuden und Tage war noch nicht erschienen, als der junge Literat Proust an einem weit ehrgeizigeren Projekt zu arbeiten begann. Die zuvor in literarischen Kleinformen erprobten Themen und Stile sollten nun im Kontinuum eines Romantextes aufgelöst werden. In enger Anlehnung an eigene Erlebnisse, an literarische und malerische Vorbilder sowie an die psychologische und soziologische Forschung seiner Zeit unternimmt es Proust, das Leben seines Helden, Jean Santeuil, als idealistisch-naturphilosophischen Entwicklungsroman zu erzählen. So entsteht zwischen 1895 und 1899 ein umfangreiches Manuskript, ohne daß es dem Autor gelänge, die einzelnen Fragmente zu einem Ganzen zusammenzufügen. 1899 hat Proust den Entwurf beiseite gelegt, um sich einem neuen Arbeitsfeld zuzuwenden. Unter dem Titel Jean Santeuil wurde das Manuskript 1952 zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht. 1971 wurde das Werk in einer zweiten, stärker auf das Fragmentarische abhebenden Ausgabe präsentiert, die außerdem zahlreiche zuvor nicht berücksichtigte Texte enthält. Die vorliegende Ausgabe folgt dem Text der zweiten Ausgabe. Im Kommentar werden das biographisch-historische Umfeld und der literarische Kontext des Werkes zum ersten Mal umfassend aufgearbeitet und ausführlich dargestellt. Drawing on the intense emotional experiences of his youth, Proust tells the story of boyhood summers of strawberries and cream cheese, of garlands of pink blossom under branches of white may, of love and its lies, of political scandal and of his deep feeling for his parents.
1240 pages, Hardcover Published October 18, 1992
About the author
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style. Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. He was also plagued with severe asthma, which had troubled him intermittently since childhood, and a terror of his own death, especially in case it should come before his novel had been completed. The first volume, after some difficulty finding a publisher, came out in 1913, and Proust continued to work with an almost inhuman dedication on his masterpiece right up until his death in 1922, at the age of 51. Today he is widely recognized as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, and À la recherche du temps perdu as one of the most dazzling and significant works of literature to be written in modern times.
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