by Marcel Proust · Editorial Pre-Textos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487101090
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«Sobre la lectura» is Marcel Proust's essay, published by Editorial Pre-Textos in paperback (80 pages, in Spanish).
Proust reflects on the place books occupy in life and in literary creation, based on the preface he wrote for his translation of John Ruskin's «Sésamo y lirios». He argues that reading, practised with discipline of thought, guides the reader in their search for truth and self-knowledge, and gives books a limited but irreplaceable role. The text anticipates the style of «En busca del tiempo perdido» and condenses the essentials of the author's aesthetic theory.
This text appeared in 1905 in La Renaissance latine and Proust later included it, under the title «Jornadas de lectura», in his work Pastiches et mélanges (1919).
Recommended for readers interested in Proust's work and in the classic reflection on the act of reading and the value of literature in the formation of the individual.
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
