When Marcel Proust submitted his great “Remembrance of Things Past” to the Paris publisher Gallimard, he was turned down by Andre Gide. whose critical judgment was—and is—considered impeccable. This error in judgment, Gide confesses in the latest nujnber of the literary review “L’Arche,” was “one of the deepest regrets of my life.” He has made public for the first time some of the letters he and Proust exchanged on this occasion. “I thought,” Gide wrote, “that you were ‘du cote de chez Verdurin,’ a snob, a society-writer who could only do harm to our review.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 7
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