~MARCEL PROUST~
Ephemera Site
This is an informal site dedicated to publishing English translations of Marcel Proust's lesser known writings. Pieces and letters which, as far as I am aware, are not available in translation elsewhere. I am fully aware of my own limitations as a translator and these are certain to contain many errors, inaccuracies and misunderstandings. All quotations from poetry I have attempted to translate strictly literally. Please mail me with any constructive criticisms, corrections or improvements.I have tried to approach my translations in a similar spirit to Proust's during his period of Ruskin translation. One of Marcel Proust's friends (Georges de Lauris) once commented that he "would have been hard put to it even to order a lamb chop in a restaurant in English". That pretty much sums up my fluency in French, but armed with a few dictionaries, a French grammar and a boundless love and respect for Proust's writing I offer up my clumsy tribute to the great man.
Since I first created these web pages volume 4 of Selected Letters has now been published. A small number of the letters here have now been included in Joanna Kilmartin's excellent translations, but the vast majority of the material below still remains untranslated elsewhere. I will continue to add to these pages in the same spirit: this is a labour of love not of scholarship.
Proust's
ArticlesAn attempt to list
all of Proust's articles and miscellaneous writings.
Un
Conte de NoëlArticle
about a story by Louis Ganderax published in Le Banquet, March 1892 and
reprinted in Chroniques (Libraire Gallimard, 1927).
Tel
qu'en songe Article about
Henri de Régnier's poetry published in Le Banquet, November 1892
and reprinted in Chroniques (Libraire Gallimard, 1927).
MensongesPoem
written by Proust in 1894, set to music by Léon Delafosse. With
thanks to Pamela Ann Mellor who translated this.
Dedication
to Willie Heath Proust's
foreword to Les Plaisirs et les Jours which was not included in
Louise Varese's translation Pleasures and Regrets.
Preface
to L'IndifferentBy Philip
Kolb, NRF, Gallimard 1978.
L'Indifferent
A short story pre-dating Les Plaisirs
et les Jours, first published in La Vie Contemporaine March
1896. Rediscovered by Philip Kolb after being forgotten for 80 years and
published by NRF, Gallimard 1978.
Silhouette
d'artisteArticle appeared
in the Revue d'Art dramatique, January 1897 and reprinted in Chroniques
(Libraire Gallimard, 1927).
Lettres
de Perse et d'ailleurs La
Presse 12 October 1899. This was a collaboration between Proust and Robert
de Flers on an epistolary romance, this being the third and last letter.
From the Kolb-Proust archive.
Le
Salon de Mme LemaireOne
of Proust's Salon articles for Le Figaro under the pseudonym Dominique.
Le
Salon de comtesse Potocka
One of Proust's Salon articles for Le Figaro under the pseudonym Horatio.
Notules
Review of Fernand Gregh's study of
Victor Hugo, Gil Blas, 14 December 1904, under the pseudonym Marc
Antoine.
Salons
A brief report of Proust's party on 6 March 1905 which may
or may not have been written by Proust.
Paris
Life, The Comtesse de Guerne
One of Proust's Salon articles for Le Figaro under the pseudonym Echo.
Les
Éblouissements An
extremely florid and flattering contemporary review of Comtesse Anna de
Noailles' book of poetry.
From
the 'Goncourt Journal' A
rather eccentric literary pastiche, in the style of the Goncourt brothers.
In
a dramatic review One
of Proust's Lemoine pastiches, in the style of Emile Faguet, literary critic
(1847-1916).
The
Lemoine Affair, by Michelet One
of Proust's literary pastiches, in the style of the French historian Jules
Michelet (1798-1874).
The
Lemoine Affair, by Henri de Régnier
One of Proust's literary pastiches, in the style of Henri de Régnier,
poet and novelist (1864-1936).
Autour
d'un livre: Le Prince des Cravates Review
of a book of 4 short stories by Lucien Daudet, L'Intransigeant 21
September 1910.
Letters
to Mme de Noailles From
Corréspondance Générale vol2 Lettres à la
Comtesse de Noailles, Plon 1931. Translations of letters not included
in
Selected Letters series or Letters of Marcel Proust, Mina
Curtiss. Letter numbers are from Plon, notes by Anna de Noailles.
Letters
to Mme StrausFrom Corréspondance
Générale Correspondance avec Madame Straus, Plon 1936.
Translations of letters not included in Selected Letters series
or Letters of Marcel Proust, Mina Curtiss. Letter numbers and notes
are from Plon.
Letters
to M. Émile Straus From
Corréspondance Générale Correspondance avec Madame
Straus, Plon 1936. Translations of letters not included in Selected
Letters series or Letters of Marcel Proust, Mina Curtiss. Letter
numbers and notes are from Plon.
Letters
to the de Caillavets, R. de Flers & B. de Fenelon
From Quelques Lettres de Marcel Proust à Jeanne, Simone, Gaston
de Caillavet, Robert de Flers, Bertrand de Fenelon, Librairie Hachette
1928. Translations of letters not included in Selected Letters series
or Letters of Marcel Proust, Mina Curtiss.
Letters
and Dedications to the Duc de Guiche
and Madame Hennessy. These are published translations; I have included
these because they are quite difficult to find. From The Veiled Wanderer
by Princess Marthe Bibesco, translated by Roland Gant, The Falcon Press
1949. With some additional notes by me.
Letter
to Antoine Bibesco From
the Kolb Proust Archive For Research www.library.uiuc.edu/kolbp/Letter.htm
Letters
to Reynaldo Hahn A few letters
from Lettres de Marcel Proust à Reynaldo Hahn, Gallimard
1956.
Letters
to Léon Yeatman From
the Kolb-Proust archive.
Extracts
from Miscellaneous Letters
Taken from various sales catalogues (some unpublished ?).
Book
DedicationsFrom the Bibliothèque
Nationale Marcel Proust exhibition catalogue 1965, from Corréspondance
Générale Correspondance avec Madame Straus, Plon 1936
and the Kolb-Proust archive.
Notes
to Nicolas Cottin & Céleste Albaret
From the Bibliothèque Nationale Marcel Proust exhibition catalogue
1965.
Balbec
A short extract from an early version of A l'ombre de jeunes filles
en fleurs. Translated from a pre-publication article in La Nouvelle
Revue Française 1 June1914, when volume II was still to be called
Le Côte de Guermantes.
Bricquebec
Translated from Bricquebec, Prototype d'A l'ombre des jeunes filles
en fleurs, Richard Bales, Oxford University Press, 1989. These are
the original corrected Grasset typescripts (1911 - 1912) of the Narrator's
first stay at Balbec, in this version still called Bricquebec/Criquebec.
(In progress ~ my long-term project)
Proust
on MastermindThe questions
from the UK TV series.
(Sketch by R. de Montesquiou)
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