In 1896, @calmann.levy published a collection of short stories, illustrated with drawings by Madeleine Lemaire and…

In 1896, @calmann.levy published a collection of short stories, illustrated with drawings by Madeleine Lemaire and featuring musical scores by Reynaldo Hahn. The young author, Marcel Proust, was unknown to the public. At the age of 25, he had published only a few society columns in @lefigaro and was regarded as an amateur, a snob and a socialite. 🤵🏻‍♂️ It was a bit like “Proust, my dear.”

In the summer of 1895, he began work on his first novel, “Jean Santeuil”, which would never be completed as such, but many of its episodes and some of its impressions would be used in the “Search”, almost 20 years later. 🕰️📚

In the very latest issue of @nrf.larevue ⭐️ dated September 2025, Pascal Fouché, who has previously edited the Proust–Gallimard correspondence, presents us with a barely polite exchange of letters between Proust and his first publisher, when, at the end of the 1914–1918 war, the former was preparing to publish his entire body of work with @editions_gallimard and the latter offered to buy back the 1,000 or so unsold copies of “Pleasures and Days”. 💸💸💸

💡 Are you familiar with the journal “NRF”? Did you know that Proust published several pieces in it between 1919 and 1922? 🗳️

#MarcelProust #RTP #CorrProust #proustagram #NRF #Correspondance