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\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu Volume V - Sodom and Gomorrah Volume II.<\/em><\/p>\n

FIRST EDITION.
\n<\/strong>Current print run, no edition number.<\/p>\n

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"To Jacques Boulenger
\nHis admirer, his
\ngrateful friend
\nMarcel Proust\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marcel PROUST - Jacques BOULENGER<\/span>
\nBoth a critic and a scholar, Jacques Boulenger (1879 - 1944) published essays on The Dandys<\/em> (1907), The Great Century<\/em> (1911), Nerval, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and fighting animals. He also wrote for various magazines and was secretary of the Gil Blas<\/em> from 1914 to 1920. From 1921, he was editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine L'Opinion<\/em> in which, on 20 December 1919, he published an article entitled \"Marcel Proust<\/em>\". He defended the author, emphasising the importance of the work and its originality, which he felt deserved the Prix Goncourt. Proust was delighted, but Boulenger went on to admit love<\/em> a book he finds badly written<\/em> and not at all compound<\/em>. Proust set about convincing the critic with a multitude of flatteries, dinner invitations and introductions to dukes. But this strategy, which he repeated with other important critics such as Binet-Valmer, Souday and Pierrefeu, had the effect of arousing Boulenger's distrust, and he only visited Proust once in June 1921.
\nThe critic analysed Proust's attitude in detail in an article in Figaro<\/em> of 3 June 1932, noting that the letters received \" seemed too kind\u00a0 <\/span>too complimentary, even too sensitive<\/em>\". He even turned a famous Proustian argument on its head, claiming that knowing the author personally does not help us to understand his work any better.
\nEven if he did not approve of his style, Boulenger remained a defender of the author of the Search<\/em>in particular against Pierrefeu, mentioning in L'Opinion<\/em> several articles praising Proust.
\nProust would continue to use his influence to convince Boulenger, going so far as to provoke a few incidents with L\u00e9on Daudet, Montesquiou and Vettard. But Boulenger's clear-sightedness and independence stood him in good stead.<\/p>\n

Marcel Proust, Letters, biographical notes on correspondents,<\/em> Virginie Greene, Plon 2004.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIRST EDITION.
\nSIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT
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