The memoirs of Ernest A. Forssgren, Proust's Swedish valet / edited and annotated by William C. Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forssgren, Ernest A., 1894-1970.

Contributor:

Carter, William C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Relations with valets.

Proust, Marcel.

Forssgren, Ernest A., 1894-1970.

Forssgren, Ernest A.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The memoirs of Ernest Forssgren (1894-1970), the young Swede who served as Marcel Proust's last valet, provide new insights into Proust's life and death. Previously, Forssgren's memoir has been published only in excerpts, in French, with serious omissions and alterations. This book presents the complete text of the memoir, with an introduction and helpful annotations by the distinguished Proust scholar William C. Carter. Also included here is other new material: the inscriptions that Proust wrote for Forssgren's copy of Swann's Way; an important telegram that Proust sent Forssgren, which defines with greater precision the novelist's activities in the final months of his life; Forssgren's "Summary" of the first English biography of Proust, by George D. Painter, which provides many new details about Proust's last trip to Cabourg in 1914 and his attempts at seducing young men of the servant class; and the notes that Forssgren made in his copy of Painter's biography.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Titles of Proust's Works

Ernest Forssgren

The Job Applicant

Introduction to Forssgren's Memoirs and Related Documents

The Mysterious Visit

Afterword

Forssgren's "Summary" of Painter

Forssgren's Marginalia

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-73153-6

9786611731533

0-300-13336-7

OCLC:

1024032781