Translations:CP 04012/7/en
I would be happy to hear that you are doing better and that your price[1], so justly deserved, has been officially notified to you, so officially that you no longer doubt that you have received it, despite the incredible maneuver of the publisher of Mr. Dorgelès[2]. Everyone remembers so well that you were granted that Jean de Pierrefeu announced to me, a few days ago, that he intended to discuss "the Marcel Proust case" in les Débats[3]. I will answer him in the l'Opinion[4], if he realizes his project. Here I am, your champion, despite your having one. I welcome it because À la recherche du temps perdu is certainly the most "original" book that has appeared, to my taste, in ten years. And I love him with all my heart. It is, moreover, one of those books that one cannot love without feeling a deep sympathy for their authors.