Lydia Davis

Letters to the Lady Upstairs


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      4th Estate,

      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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      London SE1 9GF

       www.4thEstate.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

      First published in the United States by New Directions in 2017

      First published in France as Lettres à sa voisine by Éditions Gallimard in 2013

      Translation and afterword copyright © 2017 by Lydia Davis

      Proust letters and critical apparatus copyright © 2013 Éditions Gallimard

      Published by arrangement with Éditions Gallimard.

      4th Estate is grateful to Éditions Gallimard for providing the facsimiles and photographs, and for facilitating their use in this edition.

      Fascimilies of Proust’s letters are courtesy of a private collection / Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, Paris

      Photograph of Marie Williams courtesy of Gérard Emler collection

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780008262891

      Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780008262884

      Version: 2017-09-19

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Letter 10

       Letter 11

       Letter 12

       Letter 13

       Letter 14

       Letter 15

       Letter 16

       Letter 17

       Letter 18

       Letter 19

       Letter 20

       Letter 21

       Letter 22

       Letter 23

       Letter 24

       Letter 25

       Letter 26

       Translator’s afterword

       Floor plan of Proust’s apartment

       Notes

       Index

       Works and Characters of Proust

       About the Authors

       Selected Translations of Lydia Davis

       About the Publisher

       Foreword

      The present collection forms a real novel in miniature, and is the result of a surprise