Translations:CP 03024/19/en
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- ↑ This dedication is for the most part composed of quotations selected by Proust from his rough draughts, between which he intersperses quick summaries or paraphrases of the plot. Note the ambiguity of the "I", compared with Odette, Mme Cottard, Albertine or Charlus, who are all well presented as characters. Here Proust appears to have before his eyes a proof sheet of the second volume, printed by Grasset in June 1914 (NAF 16761, sheet 43, col. 4-5): he changes the introductory sentence ("But that was due to the fact that upon reaching her mid-life she was finally..."), after which it follows the text faithfully. See RTP, I, 606. [NM]