Proust, Marcel. Letters of Marcel Proust.(Brief article)(Book review)

Proust, Marcel. Letters of Marcel Proust. Helen Marx: Turtle Point, dist. by Consortium. 2006. c.544p. ed & tr. by Mina Curtiss. index. ISBN 1-885586-45-0. pap. $17.95. LIT

These letters that Marcel Proust (1871-1922) never wished to see published, admirably translated by the late Curtiss and with a new introduction by The New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, permit a glimpse of the French writer's innermost thoughts before and during the composition of his great masterpiece, the seven-volume In Search of Lost Time (Volumes 1-6 were first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past). In 1912, Proust intended to write one semiautobiographical novel, fit la …