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Marcel Proust Interpreted Through his Letters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Thomas W. Bussom*
Affiliation:
Wesleyan University

Extract

A man's friends sometimes do him a great injustice by their very eagerness to explain him to others. Such has been Proust's fate. Since his death enthusiastic friends, lacking a certain sense of discrimination, have surrounded him with a legend which the world too readily accepted. Many stories and reminiscences about him have been published, but the real man is still hidden behind the legendary one. From the thousands of his letters said to exist, only about two or three hundred are thus far accessible, and these have made their appearance piece-meal during the last three years. Most of his correspondence remains in the care of his brother, who apparently is reticent about giving it to the public.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1931

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References

page 620 note 1 Lettres à André Gide, N.R.F., vol. xxxi, 1928, pp. 609–615.

page 622 note 2 E. de Clermont-Tonnerre: Robert de Montesquiou et Marcel Proust, Paris 1925, pp. 107–108.

page 622 note 3 R. Dreyfus: Souvenirs sur Marcel Proust, Paris, 1926, p. 168.

page 623 note 4 Quelques Lettres de Marcel Proust à Jeanne-Simone-Gaston de Caillavet, Robert de Flers, Bertrand de Fénelon. Paris, 1928, pp. 57–58.

page 623 note 5 Ibid., p. 56.

page 624 note 6 Ibid., p. 30. See also R. Dreyfus: Souvenirs sur Marcel Proust, Paris, 1926, p. 209.

page 624 note 7 Lucien Daudet: Autour de Soixante Lettres de Marcel Proust, Paris, 1929, p. 151.

page 624 note 8 Ibid., p. 171.

page 625 note 9 Ibid., p. 63.

page 625 note 10 Ibid., p. 135

page 625 note 11 Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 187.

page 625 note 12 Quelques Lettres à Mme J. G. de Caillavet, p. 87.

page 625 note 13 N. R. F., xxxi, 609–615.

page 626 note 14 Lettres à Mme Scheikévitch, Paris, 1928, p. 89.

page 626 note 15 Ibid., p. 112.

page 626 note 16 E. Clermont-Tonnerre, op. cit., p. 28–29.

page 626 note 17 Scheikévitch, op. cit., pp. 77–78.

page 626 note 18 Daudet, op. cit., p. 208.

page 627 note 19 Princess Bibesco: Au Bal avec Marcel Proust, Paris, 1928, pp. 181–182.

page 627 note 20 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 50–51.

page 627 note 21 Jacques de Lacretelle in Hommage à Marcel Proust, Paris, 1927, p. 190–191.

page 628 note 22 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 50–51.

page 628 note 23 Lettres et Vers à Mme Laure Hayman et Louisa de Mornand, recueillis, et annotés par Georges Andrieux, Paris, 1928, p. 17.

page 628 note 24 Ibid., p. 26.

page 628 note 25 Ibid., p. 29.

page 628 note 26 Ibid., p. 17–18.

page 628 note 27 Hommage, etc., p. 190–191.

page 629 note 28 Lettres à Laure Hayman, etc., op. cit., p. 38–39.

page 629 note 29 Cf. Daudet, op. cit., p. 234.

page 629 note 30 Ibid., p. 68.

page 629 note 31 Cf. Bibesco., op. cit., p. 144; Lettres à Mme de Caillavet, p. 210.

page 629 note 32 Lettres à Laure Hayman, p. 25.

page 629 note 33 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 160.

page 630 note 34 Cf. Mme Clermont-Tonnerre, op. cit., p. 105.

page 630 note 35 Cf. Princess Bibesco, op. cit., pp. 196–197.

page 630 note 36 Ibid., p. 38.

page 630 note 37 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., pp. 183–184.

page 631 note 38 Cf. Lettres à Mme de Caillavet, p. 37.

page 631 note 39 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 269.

page 631 note 40 Cf. Princess Bibesco, op. cit., p. 46.

page 631 note 41 Cf. Lettres à Mme Scheikévitch, p. 73.

page 631 note 42 Cf. Daudet, op. cit., p. 111.

page 631 note 43 Lettres à Louisa de Mornand, Paris, 1928, p. 98.

page 632 note 44 Ibud., p. 88.

page 632 note 45 Scheikévitch, op. cit., p. 120–121.

page 632 note 46 Lettres à Louisa de Mornand, p. 84; Cf. Daudet, op. cit., p. 143.

page 632 note 47 Daudet, op. cit., p. 160.

page 632 note 48 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 306.

page 632 note 49 Cf. Daudet, op. cit., p. 78.

page 632 note 50 Ibid., p. 109.

page 632 note 51 Ibid., p. 201–202.

page 632 note 52 Ibid., p. 224.

page 633 note 53 Cf. Princess Bibesco, op. cit., p. 15.

page 633 note 54 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 37–38.

page 634 note 55 Pastiches et Mélanges, Paris, 1921, N.R.F., p. 155.

page 634 note 56 Ibid., p. 193–194.

page 634 note 57 Cf. Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre, op. cit., p. 148–149. Lettre to M. Leon Bélugou.

page 635 note 58 Cf. Princess Bibesco, op. cit., p. 40–41.

page 635 note 59 Lettres à Mme de Caillavet, op. cit., p. 64.

page 635 note 60 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 261–262.

page 635 note 61 Cf. Clermont-Tonnerre, op. cit., Lettre à Louis de Robert, p. 165–167.

page 636 note 62 Cf. Daudet, op. cit., p. 71.

page 637 note 63 Cf. Scheikévitch, op. cit., pp. 59–67.

page 637 note 64 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 287.

page 638 note 65 Ibid., p. 289–290.

page 638 note 66 Ibid., p. 291.

page 638 note 67 Ibid., p. 291.

page 638 note 68 Ibid., p. 291–292.

page 639 note 69 Cf. Daudet, op. cit., p. 64.

page 639 note 70 Ibid.

page 639 note 71 Cf. Caillavet, op. cit., p. 70.

page 639 note 72 Ibid., p. 66–67.

page 639 note 73 Ibid., p. 66.

page 640 note 74 Cf. Daudet, op. cit., p. 143.

page 640 note 75 Ibid., p. 213.

page 640 note 76 Cf. Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 180.