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PROUST, MarcelBiblio.com

1908020055Versailles @6 October 1908. Letter. Creases from folding light edge toning. Near Fine. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Marcel Proust." Four pages of a bifolium 5" x 8" undated circa October 6 1908. Written on mourning stationary and addressed to Max Daireaux a man 13 years his junior whom he had met earlier that year in Cabourg France the inspiration for the resort town of Balbec in Proust's novel REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU. Though undated the letter has been identified as being written shortly before writing his magnum opus. An English translation: "I had written you a tender letter and one which with a pride to which I am not accustomed I believed to be witty! And for six days now we have been searching for it around the bed under the bed which I cannot rise from I have been suffering more in the time since I came to Versailles than I have in years - what a life! and cannot find it. So I resign myself to considering these affectionate secrets these farcical stories burned and I write to you to tell you that I am here. Some evening when you have nothing to do call and ask if I can receive you for dinner in my room dinner is the only possible way. Surely they will tell you that I am too ill. But in fact it may happen that I get better although it seems to depend on the air the weather etc. The first days I fought back I was even in Paris once in a strange way that I will recount to you and since then it has been impossible to even speak. And my poor Lauris is severely wounded in Paris - I returned for him and I cannot go see him. But this could get better; call around 6:30 PM such that if I am up to it you would be there around 7:30 because after 8 it becomes impossible to get anything to eat. Dear friend you did not get my letter so you will never know the poem that I sent you which began with these lines: My heart previously gentle chooses from this night on To hate you forever lady Spinelly And I so would love to see an omnibus On the body of the so-called Dolfus. And you will not know the conversations with Reynaldo who told me 'The fact that the Comedie Royale is the first theater that you took interest in is no reason for you to believe that no others exist.' And you will not know that I am back in love they don't know anything with the two sisters born Berthier that I furthermore have not seen again. And you will not know that d'Alton had a riding accident from which he has more or less recovered. But certainly you know that. Dear friend no one will ever know that letter not even the person to whom a beloved memory dictated it. It's infuriating.Send a message to tell me if you received this from me because I'm not sure of the house number on Vernet Street." Documented in Kolb's archive of Proust letters Vol. VIII number 127. unknown

Charles Agvent · États-Unis10 625,00 $US≈ 8 989,81 €

Proust, MarcelBiblio.com

Autograph letter signed to Mme Catusse concerning a recent duel fought on l'Île de la Jatte and referring to his lover Lucien Daudet

19071240261907. Paris: after October 7 1907. 3 pp. sm. 8vo 4 1/2 x 7 ins. Written in ink slightly faded on paper watermarked "AU PRINTEMPS PARIS NOUVEAU PAPIER FRANCAIS". § A fine personal letter written by Proust to Marie-Marguerite Catusse née Bertin his mother's dearest friend and his own close friend and confidante especially after his mother's death. In the letter he describes reading about a recent duel in which a witness was named as M. Catusse and which he briefly and wrongly supposed to be her son Charles Catusse. Later in the letter he makes a wonderfully coy reference to Lucien Daudet: "J'ai recu directement des lettres très nobles d'un sentiment très élevé d'une extreme intelligence de Lucien Daudet. Je vous assure qu'il n'est pas du tout comme vous croyez." A certain piquancy is added to the letter when it is remembered that ten years earlier in 1897 Proust had himself fought a duel with writer Jean Lorrain after Lorrain publicly questioned the nature of Proust's relationship with Lucien Daudet. "Monomotopa" and the verse quoted are from a fable of La Fontaine. The letter was recorded by Philip Kolb in his Correspondance de Marcel Proust Vol. VII 1907 p. 291 Plon 1981: n. 163 à Mme Catusse. --- The letter reads in full: Chère Madame Tout simplement j'avais lu dans un journal qu'un M. Catusse que j'ai supposé être Charles avait été témoin d'un duel entre deux jeunes gens. Sachant que dans ce cas les mères s'alarment facilement et craignent que de témoin on ne risque de passer à celui de combattant je m'étais levé comme l'ami de Monomotapa dans La Fontaine et j'avais couru. "J'ai craint qu'il ne fût vrai je suis vite accouru. Ce maudit songe en est la cause. » Votre respectueux ami Marcel. Je n'ai jamais reçu la carte dont vous me parlez et la regrette bien. J'ai reçu directement des lettres très nobles d'un sentiment très élevé d'une extrême intelligence de Lucien Daudet. Je vous assure qu'il n'est pas du tout comme vous croyez. -----. unknown

John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller · États-Unis6 500,00 $US≈ 5 499,65 €