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Marcel Proust Titles in the series Critical Lives present the work of leading cultural figures of the modern period. Each book explores the life of the artist, writer, philosopher or architect in question and relates it to their major works. In the same series Georges Bataille Marcel Duchamp Pablo Neruda Stuart Kendall Caroline Cros Dominic Moran Charles Baudelaire Sergei Eisenstein Octavio Paz Rosemary Lloyd Mike O’Mahony Nick Caistor Simone de Beauvoir Michel Foucault Pablo Picasso Ursula Tidd David Macey Mary Ann Caws Samuel Beckett Mahatma Gandhi Edgar Allan Poe Andrew Gibson Douglas Allen Kevin J. Hayes Walter Benjamin Jean Genet Ezra Pound Esther Leslie Stephen Barber Alec Marsh Jorge Luis Borges Allen Ginsberg Jean-Paul Sartre Jason Wilson Steve Finbow Andrew Leak Constantin Brancusi Derek Jarman Erik Satie Sanda Miller Michael Charlesworth Mary E. Davis Charles Bukowski Alfred Jarry Gertrude Stein David Stephen Calonne Jill Fell Lucy Daniel William S. Burroughs James Joyce Simone Weil Phil Baker Andrew Gibson Palle Yourgrau Coco Chanel Franz Kafka Ludwig Wittgenstein Linda Simon Sander L. Gilman Edward Kanterian Noam Chomsky Lenin Frank Lloyd Wright Wolfgang B. Sperlich Lars T. Lih Robert McCarter Jean Cocteau Stéphane Mallarmé James S. Williams Roger Pearson Salvador Dalí Gabriel García Márquez Mary Ann Caws Stephen M. Hart Guy Debord Karl Marx Andy Merrifield Paul Thomas Claude Debussy Eadweard Muybridge David J. Code Marta Braun Fyodor Dostoevsky Vladimir Nabokov Robert Bird Barbara Wyllie Marcel Proust Adam Watt reaktion books For Amy, Erin, Thomas, Cameron, Hamish and Henry, whose lives are just beginning Published by Reaktion Books Ltd 33Great Sutton Street London ec1v 0dx, uk www.reaktionbooks.co.uk First published 2013 Copyright © Adam Watt 2013 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bell & Bain, Glasgow British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Watt, Adam A. (Adam Andrew), 1979– Marcel Proust. –(Critical lives) 1. Proust, Marcel,1871-1922. 2.Novelists, French–20th century–Biography. I. Title II. Series 843.9'12-dc23 isbn 978 1 78023 094 8 Contents Texts and Abbreviations 7 Introduction 9 1 Physician Heal thy Son 13 2 Asthmatic Absentee / Marcel Militaire 32 3 Undergraduate, Critic, Duellist 54 4 Intellectual, Translator, Mourner 76 5 Beginnings and Endings 99 6 SwannPublished and Alfred Disparu 122 7 The Great War 144 8 Recognition and Decline 168 References 195 Select Bibliography 203 Acknowledgements 208 Photo Acknowledgements 208 Texts and Abbreviations Quotations from Proust’s novel are taken from the Vintage Classics edition of In Search of Lost Time, six volumes, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (except for Time Regained,translated by Andreas Mayor and Terence Kilmartin), revised by Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright (London, 2000–2002). References are incorporated in the text using the volume title and page number (e.g. Swann’s Way, 45), followed by Roman numeral volume number and page reference from the four-volume ‘Pléiade’ edition of A la recherche du temps perdu, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié et al. (Paris, 1987–9). Where my reading of the French is at odds with the Vintage translation I have modified this, indicated by ‘trans. mod.’ Quotations fromProust’s shorter writings are taken from Against Sainte- Beuve and Other Essays, translated by John Sturrock (Harmondsworth, 1988) and Contre Sainte-Beuve précédé de pastiches et mélanges et suivi de essais et articles,edited by Pierre Clarac and Yves Sandre (Paris, 1971); references take the abbreviated form asbor csb, each followed by page numbers. Sturrock’s volume is a selection: where I cite only csb, the material quoted has not been published in translation. All references to Proust’s correspondence (abbreviated to ‘Corr.’, followed by a volume number and page reference) are to the Correspondance de Marcel Proust,ed. Philip Kolb, 21vols (Paris, 1970–93). Translations from the correspondence, and from all other works in French, unless otherwise stated, are my own. 7 Marcel Proust photographed by Otto, 1896.
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