Title : When you are at Proust the war will be over - Hubert Nyssen - book

Summary :

Having made his career in publishing in Paris, Paul Leleu retired to a village between the Gris-Nez and Blanc-Nez capes. There, he gave himself twelve months to write to a former lover, who might never read it, an epistle in which he questions the meaning of his life and the role of the people who have passed through it. This is an opportunity for him to call upon the women, writers, translators, and publishers he has known: he battles with his memories, sometimes gives up, then returns to them with the impulses, illusions, mistrust, and passion inspired by the peerless mystifiers that are memory, dreams, and imagination. Language and reading are at the forefront of this testamentary and jubilant account of a publisher who would like to understand why the fascination with the text was sometimes so close to that which he had for certain women. Born in 1925 in Brussels, naturalized French, Hubert Nyssen settled in Provence in 1968. A writer, he is the author of some thirty works. A publisher, he founded Actes Sud just thirty years ago. A Doctor of Letters, he taught at the universities of Aix-en-Provence and Liège.

• EAN : 9782742772599
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