The Lemoine Affair (The Art of the Novella),Used

The Lemoine Affair (The Art of the Novella),Used

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Their friend Marcel Proust had killed himself after the fall in diamond shares, a collapse that annihilated a part of his fortune.This is the firstever translation into English of this startling tourdeforce by one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers.The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the reallife French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from coal and convinced numerous peopleincluding officers of the De Beers diamond mine company and Proust himselfto invest in the scheme. In a series of pastichesimitations written in the style of other writersProust tells the story of the embarrassment rippling across high society Paris in the wake of the scandal, poking fun at himself (in one story, a character declares that Marcel Proust is so embarrassed hes suicidal) while lampooning some of Frances greatest writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, and SaintSimon.Full of sophisticated wit and dazzling wordplay, and rife with allusions to his friend and fictional characters, many Proust scholars see the deadon mimicry of The Lemoine Affairwritten soon after Prousts rejection of society lifeas the work by which he honed his own unique, masterly voice.The Art of The Novella SeriesToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

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