These are twenty letters that say so much about Marcel Proust, and no doubt they are closer to a true portrait of the famous writer, because they are intimate and touch on everyday things.
We know the generosity of the author of La
Recherche
and his inability to say no.
Thus, during the summer of 1918, he agreed to receive at his home, boulevard Haussmann, Henri Rochat, a former waiter at the Ritz.
He will be his "secretary" - quotation marks are necessary, we will see.
Henri Rochat was to be housed for a few weeks, he will stay there for almost three years!
To get out of this cumbersome affair, the writer called on his friend Horace Finaly, managing director of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas), one of the great financiers of his time.
The two men had known each other at Lycée Condorcet in Paris.
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There is such a profusion of (quality) books on Proust that one should not forget these
Letters to Horace Finaly
.
This unpublished correspondence and so far…
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