Translations:CP 04852/13/en
- ↑ This is a fragment of the stay in Venice of In Search of Lost Time, which will appear in Le Matin of December 11, 1919, p. 2, section “The Thousand and One Mornings”, under the title: “Mrs. de Villeparisis in Venice”. This extract seems to have been pending in Le Matin since September (see CP 03910 and 03924; Kolb, XVIII, n° 229 and n° 243). It should be noted that on September 1, 1919, the column "Les Mille et un Matins" published a "tale" entitled "La gondole au soleil", by Louis Lefebvre, member of the Association of Writers Fighters, where the author compared in a nostalgic way the Venice of 1914 and Venice during the war. It is possible that it was reading this article that led Proust to choose an extract from his Venetian episode to appear in this same section, rather than an extract from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Bloom which, in the running for the Prix Goncourt, nevertheless presented a greater degree of literary topicality.