Translations:CP 03988/87/en
- ↑ The adjective "inflexible" (rigid) appears regularly in Proust's writing when he wants to describe the composition or the "construction" of his novel: see, between August and December 1919, his letters to Abel Hermant (CP 03897; Kolb, XVIII, no. 216), Jacques Boulenger (CP 03998; Kolb, XVIII, no. 318) and Rosny the elder (CP 03999; Kolb, XVIII, no. 319). [NM]