The B.N.F. @labnf 🏢 and Honoré Champion 📚 @honorechampion have very recently published “Cent lettres”…

The B.N.F. @labnf 🏢 and Honoré Champion 📚 @honorechampion have very recently published “One Hundred Previously Unpublished Letters by Marcel Proust”, in an edition edited by Julie André, Sophie Duval and Guillaume Fau:

“These one hundred letters, recently acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and classified as works of major heritage significance, shed new light on the life and work of Marcel Proust.
Written between 1886 and November 1922, they were kept by the writer and found amongst his papers after his death. This collection, in which notes, draft letters and other missives—whether unsent or returned by their recipients—appear alongside official correspondence and letters received, thus complements the “Lettres retrouvées” from the same source, edited by Philip Kolb exactly 60 years ago. With these newly discovered letters, which span almost the entirety of Proust’s life, we are able to read a whole lifetime’s worth of correspondence: from notes and telegrams to postcards, from social correspondence to administrative letters, from financial correspondence to medical or military letters, right through to all those letters written by the author, whether they relate to the literary world and editorial matters or concern the process of writing his works.” 🛌✍🏻🕰️

Drafts, unsent or retrieved letters, and notes intended solely for the household 🚪🪟🗝️ reveal, from 1886 to 1922, the many facets of Proust’s life. A prose poem 💌 written for Reynaldo Hahn, a declaration of admiration 🤩 for Blaise Cendrars and a break-up note 💔 addressed to Alfred Agostinelli appear here alongside numerous exchanges with the literary world.

But this ““Rediscovered Correspondence”” also contains a few letters received: from Lucien Daudet, Alfred Vallette, “poor Eugénie” and even Céleste Albaret. 🫶🏻

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