Letters to the lady upstairs / Marcel Proust ; translated and with an afterword by Lydia Davis ; text edited and annotated by Estelle Gaudry and Jean-Yves Tadie ; with a foreword by Jean-Yves Tadie.

First published in France as: Lettres a sa voisine by Editions Gallimard in 2013.

Published in the US as "Letters to his neighbor" by New Directions, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs. Written by Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this precious discovery of letters reveals the comings and goings of a Paris building, as seen through Proust's eyes. You'll read of the effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and writing; and, above all, of a growing, touching friendship between two lonely souls."--Publisher's description.

Translated from the French.