He asks for proofs.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:02:04 Boxid IA40027423 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Write to me at once how my pieces are? and if they have resisted the cutting". Give my best to Gaston, to whom I am still too weak to write. I don't ask you to come and see me (now I could receive you, perhaps) but I know that evening outings are no good to you. My doctor, having seen me killing myself on your extracts, thought I was crazy to work in such a state. Besides, I am already much better (thanks to the escape). But I'll leave him the Cris de Paris (it's not the Cris de Paris, I'm telling you, very badly) I think, because without it the work seems to me inextricable. I am too honest with you, and I add with Fayard, for a single line of what I am sending you to appear in the Œuvres libres. Have no fear when you see the name Gisèle instead of Albertine. I did with a meritorious energy if you had seen my state a work of cutting which will make me sentence by sentence the establishment of the volume a torture. The piece I am sending you should be entitled: I Watching her sleep. But this is already nearly 15 pages of the N.R.F. Paris would have amused the reader more than the result of my probes into the depths of sleep.
I regret to send you what I am sending you. "A mixture of evadmine and kola makes it impossible for me to write (I mean to draw characters clearly) for an hour. This letter accompanied the first fragment addressed to Jacques Rivière]. The two excerpts appeared in the Nouvelle Revueįrançaise on November 1, 1922, only 18 days before Proust's death. Until the day of printing, Rivière will have to face the writer's fussy demands concerning the cutting of his text and the corrections. He reduced the first of these fragments, Watching Her Sleep, to six pages, and a second, My Awakenings, to two and a half pages.
Proust finally sent him Le Sommeil d'Albertine and Les Cris de Paris, after a month and a half of fighting. Rivière continued to besiege the exhausted writer to make him keep his initial promise. Proust decided, however, to give the Œuvres libres a large extract covering the period of his life with Albertine, which was published in February 1923. Revue Française, some extracts that he is to provide to the review and which give rise to numerous exchanges between the two men. He has promised Jacques Rivière, director of the Nouvelle [Proust, seriously ill, is putting the last volume of the Recherche du Temps perdu on deck. One of Proust's last letters, while he was ill and working on his novel La Prisonnière. "Marcel Proust",, to Jacques RIVIÈRE 5 pages in-8.
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