For forty years, scholars have had access to a vast array of documents that reveal the stages by which a few modest episodes grew into the vast and complex structure the world reveres as Marcel Proust's unique novel, A la recherche du temps perdu. Although many soundings have been made in this corpus, which comprises manuscript pages, exercise books, typescripts, and publisher's proofs, Anthony Pugh's study is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive view of the story that the documents reveal, at least in the years before the outbreak of war in 1914.
A crucial feature of the research is the rigorous establishment of the chronological sequence of the documents, a task complicated by Proust's habit of returning to sketches already written, amplifying them with extensive additions in the margins and on the facing pages, often reorganizing them, and finally reworking them in another form, sometimes physically intercalating pages of the first version into the new one. Anthony Pugh analyses with scrupulous care every document, facing all the multi-faceted problems they present, and showing why many solutions, some of them widely accepted by Proust scholars, have to be questioned.
It emerges from this investigation that however unsystematic Proust was in his method of composing, there is an inner logic in the way he oscillates between writing new incidents and editing texts already extant. Now, for the first time, the whole story of the way in which A la recherche du temps perdu grew during the first six years of its gestation is told in full, both in its general thrust and in its fine details.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- VOLUME I: 1909—1911 4
- Foreword 18
- Introduction 22
- Abbreviations 34
- Part One: Towards the Typescript of 'Combray' (1909) 36
- 1 The foundations (May 1909) 38
- 1.0 Introduction 38
- 1.1 Cahier 4 40
- 1.2 Cahiers 25', 31, and 36 44
- 1.3 Cahiers 7, 6, and 51 55
- 1.99 Conclusion 64
- 2 A First Version of 'Combray' (June to August 1909) 65
- 2.0 Introduction 65
- 2.1 'Combray I' (Cahier 8) 66
- 2.2 'Combray II' 74
- 2.3 Work interrupted (mid-August 1909) 82
- 2.99 Conclusion 85
- 3 Beyond Combray, and Back Again (August to October 1909) 87
- 3.0 Introduction 87
- 3.1 Querqueville (Cahier 12, f.42–95) 88
- 3.2 Revisions to 'Combray' 92
- 3.3 The fair copy of 'Combray' (Cahiers 9, 10, and 63) 97
- 3.99 Conclusion 111
- 4 Beyond Combray, and Back... Again (October to November 1909) 113
- 4.0 Introduction 113
- 4.1 The hawthorns (Cahier 12, f.99–110) 113
- 4.2 Back to Querqueville 115
- 4.3 The Two Ways (Cahier 26, f.1–21) 126
- 4.4 Querqueville, Swann, and the Protagonist 129
- 4.5 Excursions to Padua and to Guermantes 142
- 4.6 The fair copy revised 147
- 4.99 Conclusion 157
- 5 The 1909 Typescript (December 1909) 158
- 5.0 Introduction 158
- 5.1 Description of the typescript 159
- 5.2 The date of the typescript 164
- 5.3 Changes to the typescript 174
- 5.4 Some revisions 185
- 5.99 Conclusion 191
- Part Two: Towards a Complete Typescript (1910–1911) 192
- 6 The Sequel to Combray (January to March 1910) 194
- 6.0 Introduction 194
- 6.1 'Un Amour de Swann' 197
- 6.2 Swann and Gilberte (Cahier 27, f.13–58) 211
- 6.3 A plan of Querqueville (Cahier 27, f.59–61) 220
- 6.4 More on Gilberte, and episodes for 'les filles' 222
- 6.5 Andrée and Maria 229
- 6.6 Around Querqueville (Cahier 29, f.12–36) 242
- 6.7 Drafts of the opening pages of Querqueville 246
- 6.99 Conclusion 258
- 7 New Material for Combray and Querqueville (April to May 1910) 260
- 7.0 Introduction 260
- 7.1 'La vraie réalité' (Cahier 14) 261
- 7.2 From Montargis to Bergotte 270
- 7.3 Elstir at Querqueville 277
- 7.4 Reading Bergotte at Combray; Gurcy at Querqueville 282
- 7.5 The Protagonist and Bergotte, the hawthorns, and the death of the grandmother 286
- 7.6 Sunday afternoons at Combray (Cahier 14) 292
- 7.7 Complements 302
- 7.99 Conclusion 309
- 8 Guermantes (May to August 1910) 310
- 8.0 Introduction 310
- 8.1 Madame de Guermantes 312
- 8.2 Entry into Guermantes 322
- 8.3 Guermantes concluded: search for a young lady; discovery of Gurcy's homosexuality (Cahier 49) 342
- 8.4 Beyond Guermantes 350
- 8.5 Further additions, chiefly to Querqueville 358
- 8.99 Conclusion 373
- 9 The Final Sequence (Winter 1910–1911) 374
- 9.0 Introduction 374
- 9.1 Towards Le Temps retrouvé 376
- 9.2 Before Venice: Picpus, Verdurin, the death of the grandmother, the article in Le Figaro 380
- 9.3 Venice 393
- 9.4 Le Temps retrouvé 401
- 9.99 Conclusion 410
- VOLUME II: 1911–1914 414
- Introduction 426
- Abbreviations 430
- Part Three: The Typescript of 1911–1912 432
- 10 'Combray' (Spring and Summer 1911) 434
- 10.0 Introduction 434
- 10.1 'Combray' completed 436
- 10.2 The typescript of 'Combray III' 452
- 10.3 The 1909 typescript revised (August to September 1911) 462
- 10.99 Conclusion 478
- 11 'Un amour de Swann' (September to October 1911) 479
- 11.0 Introduction 479
- 11.1 'Un Amour de Swann' in Cabourg (Cahiers 15 and 16) 483
- 11.2 'Un Amour de Swann' in Cabourg (Cahier 17) 497
- 11.3 'Un Amour de Swann' in Paris 501
- 11.99 Conclusion 519
- 12 'Noms de Pays: le nom' (Winter 1911–1912) 520
- 12.0 Introduction 520
- 12.1 'Gilberte Swann, ' the first draft (Cahier 20) 524
- 12.2 'Gilberte Swann' revised 530
- 12.3 Revising 'Gilberte Swann' for the typist 539
- 12.4 'Gilberte Swann' concluded 552
- 12.99 Conclusion 561
- 13 'Noms de pays: le pays' (March to June 1912) 562
- 13.0 Introduction 562
- 13.1 'Noms de pays: le pays': the manuscript 567
- 13.2 'Noms de pays: le pays': preparing the transcript 577
- 13.3 'Noms de pays: le pays': the typescript 586
- 13.99 Conclusion 594
- 14 'Le Côté de Guermantes' (June to Early August 1912) 596
- 14.0 Introduction 596
- 14.1 'Le Côté de Guermantes I': manuscript 599
- 14.99 Conclusion 620
- Part Four: Towards Publication 622
- 15 Revising the Typescript (August to October 1912) 624
- 15.0 Introduction 624
- 15.1 'Combray' 626
- 15.2 'Un Amour de Swann' 631
- 15.3 'Noms de pays: le nom' 639
- 15.4 'Noms de pays: le pays' 648
- 15.5 Updating D1 651
- 15.6 Changes to D2 660
- 15.7 Further changes to D1 681
- 15.99 Conclusion 693
- 16 The Grasset Proofs 695
- 16.0 Introduction 695
- 16.1 In search of a publisher (October 1912 to March 1913) 696
- 16.2 The first set of Grasset proofs: 'Combray' and 'Un Amour de Swann' (April to June 1913) 707
- 16.3 The first set of Grasset proofs: 'Noms de pays: le nom' (June to July 1913) 729
- 16.4 The second set of Grasset proofs (June to July 1913) 741
- 16.5 The rest (third to fifth sets) of the Grasset proofs (August to November 1913) 749
- 16.99 Conclusion 756
- 17 Beyond the Grasset Volume 758
- 17.0 Introduction 758
- 17.1 Preparing the typescript 763
- 17.2 Correcting the typescript (January? to May 1914) 772
- 17. 3 Towards the third volume: the 'jeunes filles' (? late 1913) 788
- 17.4 For the third volume: Albertine, new plans (before May 1914) 804
- 17.5 Grasset proofs and NRF extracts (May to July 1914) 825
- 17.99 Conclusion 844
- Conclusion 846
- Appendix: Information concerning Proust Documents 860
- Bibliography 870