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Books and the Arts. Shall I Call This Book a Novel?
Curtiss, Mina | February 25, 1956 issue

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"Jean Santeuil," Marcel Proust's first long work, written soon after he left the university, and published, in France in 1952, has great importance for one reason. The mere bulk of this 744-page volume of notes and sketches preliminary to "Remembrance of Things Past" should dispel once and for all the public image of Proust which readers of his letters have long known to be untrue. The truth is that no artist ever imposed upon himself more disciplined apprenticeship; and few writers have had the artistic integrity to recognize the inadequacies in a work of these proportions, the moral strength deliberately to lay it aside and start anew.

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JEAN Santeuil (Book); PROUST, Marcel, 1871-1922; BOOKS; AUTHORS; PUBLISHERS & publishing; TRANSLATIONS
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