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Autograph notes and corrections on proofs from La Bible d'Amiens
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Autograph notes and corrections on proofs from La Bible d'Amiens: A nice Proust "placard"

by Marcel PROUST

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Marcel PROUSTPlacard d'épreuves pour La Bible d'Amiens
S.l.n.d. [circa February 1903]. 12 p. in-8, mounted on paper to form a large 49 x 130 cm sheet, bearing around 90 autograph corrections, as many typographical corrections.
Rare proofs of passages from La Bible d'Amiens, for publication in the literary journal La Renaissance latine on February 15, 1903.
Numerous autograph corrections, including several previously unpublished variants, testify to Proust's meticulous attention to detail in this translation, the success of which encouraged him to take up the exercise a second time with Le Sésame et les Lys two years later.
Marcel Proust began to take an interest in Ruskin's works in the autumn of 1899, as soon as he returned from Evian-les-Bains, immersing himself in the intensive reading of the man he called "this great man" after discovering the chapter entitled "The Lamp of Memory" in The Seven Lamps of Architecture. A few months later, he learned of the death of the art critic in the Figaro of… Read More
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