Translations:CP 03988/90/en
- ↑ See the letter-dedication to Madame Scheikévitch of [shortly after 3 November 1915] (CP 03024), p. 2: "I would prefer to introduce you to some characters that you don’t yet know, one above all who plays the most important role and determines the turn of events, Albertine." On the structural importance Proust accords to the sadism scene see also his letters to François Mauriac of [23 or 24 September 1919] (CP 03911; Kolb, XVIII, no. 230), to André Chaumeix of [12 December 1919] (CP 03988; Kolb, XVIII, no. 308) and to Jean Ajalbert of [shortly after 10 December 1919] (CP 05359). [FP, NM]