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The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() When the soixante-quinze feuillets weren’t included in the collection acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale from Proust’s niece Suzy Mante-Proust in 1962, they were considered lost. In the foreword, de Fallois framed Les Soixante-quinze Feuillets as a “precious guide” to understanding In Search of Lost Time. Until recently, the documents were in the possession of publisher Bernard de Fallois, who first mentioned the documents in the foreword for Against Sainte-Beuve, a 1954 collection of previously unpublished Proust essays. Written in 1908 when Proust was a thirty-six-year-old unknown, the pages comprise six major episodes that-in revised form-made their way into Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, and The Fugitive. I didn’t eat a madeleine, but this is a throwback: finally the world is able to read Les Soixante-quinze Feuillets (The Seventy-Five Pages), seventy-five manuscript pages that make up the oldest draft of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. ![]()
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