Translations:CP 05634/15/en
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- ↑ See Francine Goujon, "Le manuscrit de À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs : le 'cahier violet'", Bulletin Marcel Proust, no. 49, 1999, p. 7-16. This description, which corresponds to the future "cahier violet", confirms F. Goujon's hypothesis that the second cahier, if it really exists, must be "excessively brief" (p. 11-12): a bundle of pages torn out and sewn together. Mlle Rallet could simply have regrouped the two parts in a folder or a purple cover to preserve the pages in poor condition and the order of the text, until the phase of cutting and reconstitution in proof sheets. This regrouping into a single material unit would explain the passage noted by F. Goujon (p. 11) from two notebooks in October 1917 to a single notebook in April-May 1918. Proust mentions again "the 2 notebooks I sent you", "the 2 notebooks on Albertine that you have" in his letter to Gallimard of [17 October 1917] (CP 04453; MP-GG, no. 41).[CSz]