'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout
Proust's life nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never even spoke of them.
Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was nurturing for his masterpiece In
Search of Lost Time. Or perhaps in dealing directly with gay desire they were too audacious -
too near to life - for the censorious society of the time. In these stories published in
English for the first time we find an intimate portrait of a young author full of darkness
complexity and melancholy longing to reveal himself to the world.
