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Marcel PROUST

Le côté de Guermantes II. Sodome et Gomorrhe I

Nrf, Paris 1921, 14x19,5cm, broché.

First edition on ordinary paper, false mention of the sixth edition.
Handsome autograph inscription from Marcel Proust to André Salmon.
Covers uniformly browned, covers and upper corner of leaf with inscription skillfully reinforced.
In his "Souvenirs sans fin [Memories without end]," Salmon recalls the circumstances of this unlikely 'meeting' between two distant literary worlds, the Bohemian world of the Montparnasse crowd and the aristocratic salons that Proust frequented: "I did not actually know Proust, but we corresponded. It was he who made the approach, in the most sublime and unexpected way. I had just given a reading of a realist fable at the Nouvelle Revue Française (in March 1920), called "Le Mannequin d'acajou [The Mahogany Mannequin]," something I never suspected could interest that observer, that fierce admirer - yes, subjugated and mistrustful - of the Duchess of Guermantes, Oriano - a hateful creature worthy of public exposure...Marcel Proust wrote to me straight after the reading of Le Mannequin d'acajou. He also sent me some of his books, with handsome inscriptions. I replied, of course, to Marcel Proust, but I never went to see him. Corresponding with him was important to me, but I could not resolve myself to go and visit him at his bedside... above all, to go and sit among so many others whose delights would never be my own. Obviously, there was no question of meeting Marcel Proust at midnight in the Ritz, where the staff did not know me. Was I wrong? In any case, Marcel Proust bore me no ill-will. He must have understood, guessed, my motives. Not only did he keep writing to me, but he also wrote to others with the intention of helping me."
In fact, after the publication of this short story, Proust put forward Salmon's name along with Rivière's for the two Blumenthal scholarships. Unfortunately, Salmon had already passed the upper age limit and it was André Thérive who got the second scholarship. André Salmon would not find out about this support until 1951, when he read Proust's unpublished letters to Edmond Jaloux in the Revue de Paris: "Let me pick out what he was kind enough to write on my account, even in the midst of a burning fever...: 'Your conclusion thus seems to be Salmon, which by the way is the same one I came to with Gide. I find that the reasoning they applied (the prize would allow him to stop doing journalism) is very misguided. Talent is reason enough in itself...'" (cf. A. Salmon, Souvenirs sans fin, pp. 807-809). This work is undoubtedly the second and final work inscribed by Proust to André Salmon, after the first volume of The Guermantes Way, published the previous year.
This precious Proustian relic is presented in a black morocco box by Goy & Vilaine, date at foot of spine, lined with khaki sheep.
 

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