Proustian hagiography 🙌🏻 has unfairly assigned a somewhat thankless role to Bernard Grasset 📗, the first…
Translated from French.
Proustian hagiography 🙌🏻 has unfairly cast Bernard Grasset 📗 in a somewhat thankless role as the first publisher of “Swann's Way”, the first volume of “the Search”, which was self-published on 14 November 1913.
From January 1914, Jacques Rivière and the entire @la_nrf behind him set about trying to rectify their mistake: having let Proust slip through their fingers 🕰️. Rivière and Gaston Gallimard managed to win him back from @editionsgrasset around 1916. From June 1919, previously unpublished extracts from “the Search” appeared in @nrf.larevue 🗞️ and @editions_gallimard published three volumes: “Les Jeunes Filles” 🌺, a reprint of “Swann” 🏠 and “Pastiches et Mélanges” 📓.
What were Grasset’s two mistakes?
☝🏻 In 1913, the same as Gallimard’s: not to read the work carefully. Proust published it with @editionsgrasset because Grasset allowed him to publish it at his own expense, something @editions_gallimard would not permit. 🤷🏻♂️
✌🏻 In 1916, being called up and unable to ensure that Proust’s work could continue to be published. 🙅🏻♂️
What’s more, ever since the NRF was founded in 1908 (Grasset Publishers was established in the same year), Proust preferred the NRF to any other publisher. At the time, it was the choice of artists. 📝✍🏻
A collector’s irony: the original volumes of “Swann” published by Grasset are now worth a fortune. ✨
#NRF #MarcelProust #proustagram #BernardGrasset #GastonGallimard #JacquesRivière #RTP #DuCôtédechezSwann
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