Mysterious Correspondent

<b><br> 'Startlingly audacious.' <i>Literary Review</i></b> <p/><b>New writing from the literary master</b> <p/>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 <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>. Or perhaps in dealing directly with gay desire they were too audacious - too near to life - for the censorious society of the time. <p/>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.