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<ref name="n1"> The New Year's wishes for 1915 that Proust sends to his correspondent at the end of the letter allow us to date it as 3 January 1915. [PK] </ref>
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Marcel Proust to Louis de Robert 3 January [1915]

3 January[1]

102 boulevard Haussmann

Dear friend

In this terrible anguish of war and the anguish that was my “Pre-War”[2] (because the whole of last summer was for me the cruellest of my life[3]), I have never stopped thinking about you - as a great friend of the mind - in the midst of misfortunes when I was no longer in possession of my mind

And then war broke out! On the first day my brother left for Verdun[4] as a major, and since then has never ceased to be in the most terrible danger in the firing line[5]. My dearest friends are all at the front. It gives me some peace of mind at least to know that you can’t “go”. As for myself I’ve still not passed my exemption review. I hope that your health does not suffer too cruelly from the repercussions of these anxieties, and also that your friends haven’t been too much put to the test. Alas, I already have friends[6], even family members[7] who have been killed.

I don’t know if you share my opinion, but I find the newspapers are greatly inferior to the great matters that they talk about. I think they take a deplorable tone that risks diminishing the scope for Victory, a Victory which, alas, is so far off. May it come in 1915, and without our dearest friends being taken from us. Dear friend, may 1915 also bring a strengthening of your health and inspiration for great works

With all my heart, your

Marcel Proust

[8] [9]

Notes

  1. ↑ The New Year's wishes for 1915 that Proust sends to his correspondent at the end of the letter allow us to date it as 3 January 1915. [PK]
  2. ↑ Allusion to the title of a work by Léon Daudet (L'Avant-Guerre. Études et documents sur l'espionnage juif-allemand en France depuis l'affaire Dreyfus, Paris, Nouvelle édition nationale, 1913). It was Daudet who created the concept of the "Pre-War", and his book that popularised it. In a letter to Lucien Daudet written around [Monday evening 16 November 1914, or shortly afterwards] (CP 02844), Proust expresses his admiration for this prophetic work and for the power of Léon Daudet's imagination that allows him to discover "social laws". [PK, FL] (
  3. ↑ Note 3
  4. ↑ Note 4
  5. ↑ Note 5
  6. ↑ Note 6
  7. ↑ Note 7
  8. ↑ Translation notes:
  9. ↑ Contributors:
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