Here is a document that is rarely seen, even in monographs: the awarding of the @academiegoncourt prize to…

📖🖋️ Here is a document that is rarely seen, even in monographs: the awarding of the @academiegoncourt prize to Marcel Proust for “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” #JFF 🌺, the second volume of “In Search of Lost Time” #RTP 🕰️📚, on 10 December 1919.

At the bottom of the page are the signatures of the members of the jury, including Léon Daudet, son of Alphonse and brother of Lucien, who had campaigned on Proust’s behalf. Proust would later commemorate this by dedicating the third volume to him in 1920: “The Guermantes Way” 📗📘📙.

I’m currently re-reading the correspondence @editions.sillage between Proust and Rivière for an article I’ll tell you more about later, and the final weeks before Proust joined @nrf.larevue were quite a mad time 😵‍💫:

✂️ Excerpts from previously unpublished material for the re-launch of @nrf.larevue on 1 June 1919, the first post-war issue.

📘 The publication of “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”, which was scheduled for a few days later.

📔 Joint publication by Pastiches and Mélanges.

📗 A new edition of “Swann's Way”, for which @editions_gallimard had acquired the rights from @editionsgrasset on behalf of @la_nrf!

The collaboration between Proust and Rivière in 1919 marked a real turning point in terms of editorial strategy, publicity, and moral and commercial agreements. It was all of this that paved the way for the award of the @academiegoncourt prize 🌟.

Are you familiar with the correspondence between Jacques Rivière and Marcel Proust? 🗳️

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