An implausible anecdote about Marcel Proust

Posted on September 9, 2021 by odeboyz

“…Proust himself had said that he wrote the opening and closing paragraphs of À la recherche one after the other, and then just filled in the other 1.2 million words in the middle.”

Salmon, Peter. An Event, Perhaps (p. 110). Verso. Kindle Edition.

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