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Marcel Proust: The Complete Short Stories. (Books: proust before proust).

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Joachim Neugroschel, translator Marcel Proust: The Complete Short Stories. Cooper Square Press, 201 pages, $25.95

When, in 1896, Marcel Proust published his first book, he was twenty-five. It was a disparate collection of tales, prose poems, verses, portraits, and satires, some written at least five years earlier, entitled Les Plaisirs et les jours. This is the work (with the addition of a few items of juvenilia) newly translated and now offered to the public as Proust's Complete Short Stories. Given the mixed nature of the contents, this title seems an approximation: the stories are there, but so are other things.

Les Plaisirs et les jours did not make ...

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