Next to the world of the Belle Epoque, that end of the nineteenth century he produced a literature that he had in the beauty of the word and in a world of vagueness and ethereal characters his best achievements. The young Marcel Proust joins literature precisely at that time and welcomes that subtle desire for beauty in The Pleasures and Days, his first book, in which, below the "flower basket" he wants to be, the themes that were to turn his major narrative, In search of lost time, into the great novel of the twentieth century appear underground. In the stories, poems and poetic prose that make up Pleasures and Days, these themes arise here and there: from the warm kiss of the mother to the idea of guilt for a sexuality that does not adapt to social norms, to the fine irony with which the author contemplates the aristocratic world around him, in which he aspires to insert himself , and from which in A the search for lost time will become the most successful critic. The pleasures and days are accompanied in this edition of several stories and prose belonging to that initial stage of Proust, some published in magazines, others forgotten by its author, which had mostly never before been translated into Spanish; they were "forgotten" for various reasons, but above all because excessive "clarity" in exposing condemned loves or criminal guilt forced a young Proust to keep under lock and key what he could scandalize and what ended up erupting in The Search for Lost Time.