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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", [ca. February 25, 1909, to Robert de MONTESQUIOU]| 3 pages in-8.
Beautiful letter thanking Montesquiou for sending his book Assemblée de notables (Félix Juven, 1908).
"Forgive me for proportioning the expression of my gratitude to my extreme fatigue. I rediscovered, from the very first glance, with unmixed pleasure, that delightful comparison drawn from the architect and the gardener, in a completely different genre "the one who taught us to shave our eyebrows", so many witty, profound things, marvelous in intelligence and talent, original, just yours, that could only be yours. How we'd like to know the names of the porcelain lovers (B and LR), the academician who said "aide mémoire" and Ganderax cut me off, and the other academician (sphinge), the lady who sold her collection 50 times over. For it is at the same time so strong, so lively (no doubt this is what makes it Balzacian) that by sharing intelligence and charming inspiration, it still piques curiosity and gives back to those who can no longer work with their brains, a taste for society, if not for revisiting, at least for thinking again about these Dames d'Automne, long since banished from my memory"...Correspondance, t. IX, n° 17, p. 45.
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", [ca. February 25, 1909, to Robert de MONTESQUIOU]| 3 pages in-8.
Beautiful letter thanking Montesquiou for sending his book Assemblée de notables (Félix Juven, 1908).
"Forgive me for proportioning the expression of my gratitude to my extreme fatigue. I rediscovered, from the very first glance, with unmixed pleasure, that delightful comparison drawn from the architect and the gardener, in a completely different genre "the one who taught us to shave our eyebrows", so many witty, profound things, marvelous in intelligence and talent, original, just yours, that could only be yours. How we'd like to know the names of the porcelain lovers (B and LR), the academician who said "aide mémoire" and Ganderax cut me off, and the other academician (sphinge), the lady who sold her collection 50 times over. For it is at the same time so strong, so lively (no doubt this is what makes it Balzacian) that by sharing intelligence and charming inspiration, it still piques curiosity and gives back to those who can no longer work with their brains, a taste for society, if not for revisiting, at least for thinking again about these Dames d'Automne, long since banished from my memory"...Correspondance, t. IX, n° 17, p. 45.