Translation of Memories: Recollections of the Young Proust

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In 1896 Marie Nordlinger arrived in Paris to study painting. Her cousin, Reynaldo Hahn, was becoming kno wn as a composer and his friend Marcel Proust was an aspirin g novelist. P.F. Prestwich recounts the relationship between these young people. '

"It has a timeless fairytale quality . . . The writing is zestful and broadly humorous, the philosophy that of a French D.H. Lawrence." "Sunday Times""