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Literary return: on the side of essays, from Céline to Steinbeck, via Proust and the Roaring Twenties

2022-08-17T16:59:11.695Z


New releases, reissues, discoveries... The literary season will also be marked by the return of great authors of yesteryear and past.


In the wake of the spring success of

War

(150,000 copies sold), Gallimard will publish at the beginning of October, as planned, a new unpublished work by Louis-Ferdinand Céline,

London

, a novel written in 1933-1934, and matrix of

Guignol's Band

.

A release, accompanied by the update of the biography of François Gibault (at Bouquins), which will take place at the time when will open, on October 11, the great exhibition of the BnF on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Marcel Proust.

Celebration which will be accompanied by updates (including the biography, revised and enlarged, signed by Jean-Yves Tadié, in “Folio”) and new features.

Among the latter, let us retain

Proust Océan

, by Charles Dantzig (Grasset),

Marcel Proust: a non-Jewish Jew

, by Pierre Birnbaum (Seuil), and a collective and original work,

Proust-Monde

.

When foreign writers read Proust,

(“Folio”, September 8).

There you will find texts by Rilke, Chalamov, Gombrowicz, and living contemporary authors.

Thierry Laget, author of

Proust, Prix Goncourt…

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Source: lefigaro

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