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René Boylesve to Marcel Proust 13 Dec[ember 19]19
(Click on the link above to see this letter and its notes in the Corr-Proust digital edition, including all relevant hyperlinks.)
27 rue des Vignes
13 December 1919
Dear Sir,
I am very embarrassed now! I will appear as a cheap flatterer if I tell you all of what I think about your book. I should have done it earlier. But I did not think at all about the prix Goncourt: I thought I had the time. I read your book bit by bit, and told myself that I would need a holiday to write to you everything that your work had suggested me to write[1]. Too bad! These few brief words will maybe suggest to you all I think of you and that I sum up to you again: I am happy like I never have been since the establishment of this prize.
I admire you as you know and I like you as you will not doubt.
Yours truly
René Boylesve.
Notes
- ↑ According to the account of René Boylesve in the edition of the Nouvelle revue française serving as a tribute to Proust (‘Premières réflexions sur l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust’, 1 January 1923, pp. 109-116), he was for a long time discouraged by Proust’s writing, and did not read any of his books completely until the summer of 1922, when he was won over after having read a study by Charles Du Bos. [CSz]
- ↑ Translation notes:
- ↑ Contributors: Rgarner