"Proust est un des rares écrivains dont l'oevre divise le temps entre un avant et un après, ce qui est peut-être la définition du génie."

 

"Proust is one of the rare writers whose work divides the time into a before and an after, that may be the definition of a genius."

 

Unfortunately we don't know the source of this quotation. The speaker is identified only as "a critic, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the novelist's death." (read the whole essay by Germaine Brée and Carlos Lynes, Jr.)

 

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Le Cimetière du Père Lachaise - Paris

 

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"The margins of proofs and typescripts were covered with scribbled corrections and insertions, often overflowing on to additional sheets which were glued to the galleys or to one another to form interminable strips — what Françoise in the novel calls the narrator's paperoles. The unravelling and deciphering of these copious additions cannot have been an enviable task for editors and printers."

 

Terence Kilmartin

 

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Homage to Proust ~ a joint effort of BNF (French National Library) and Musée d'Orsay in Paris:

http://expositions.bnf.fr/proust/

http://expositions.bnf.fr/proust/anglais/

 

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Amongst all of the essays, summaries, analysis I have read on "In Search of Lost Time", this one here, I recommend to everyone who has read Proust, who plans to read Proust or who is reading Proust:

 

 

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Cartoon by Warren Miller - 1978 - The New Yorker

 

 

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Cartoon by James Stevenson - The New Yorker

 

 

 

Excerpts

 

 

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