Translations:CP 04852/13/en
- ↑ This is a fragment of the stay in Venice of À la recherche du temps perdu, which will appear in Le Matin of 11 December 1919, p. 2, section “Les Mille et un Matins”, under the title: “Mme de Villeparisis à Venise”. 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 1 September 1919, the column "Les Mille et un Matins" published a "tale" entitled "La gondole au soleil", by Louis Lefebvre, member of the Association des Écrivains combattants, 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 À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs which, in the running for the Prix Goncourt, nevertheless presented a greater degree of literary topicality. [PK, FL]