Proustian holy grail, the very large format “Soixante-Quinze Feuillets” had become legendary. The only trace that existed was the allusion made to it by Bernard de Fallois, in 1954, in the preface to Contre Sainte-Beuve. In 1962, they had not joi ...
Proustian holy grail, the very large format “Soixante-Quinze Feuillets” had become legendary. The only trace that existed was the allusion made to it by Bernard de Fallois, in 1954, in the preface to Contre Sainte-Beuve. In 1962, they had not joined the National Library with the rest of Swann's author's manuscripts. Their reappearance in 2018 following the death of Bernard de Fallois, after more than half a century of futile research, was a bolt from the blue.
Because the elusive “Seventy-Quinze Feuillets” of 1908 are an essential piece of the puzzle. Well before Contre Sainte-Beuve, they not only give us the oldest version of In Search of Lost Time. Through the reading keys that the writer seems to have forgotten there, they give access to the primitive Proustian crypt. “A book is a great cemetery where on most of the tombs we can no longer read the erased names,” we read in Le Temps regained; but here, time has not yet erased all the names.
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