“Albertine Disparue” – Initial Reception

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Critics:

Extract: “LES MILLE ET UN MATINS: Mᴹᴱ DE VILLEPARISIS A VENISE” from Le Matin (December 11, 1919)

Extract: “A VENISE” from Les Feuillets D’Art (February 1920)

Reprinted by La Revue De Genève (July 1925)

Extract (translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff): “THE DEATH OF ALBERTINE” from The Criterion (July 1924)

Extract (translated by Giuseppe Sprovieri): “Soggiorno a Venezia nel dopoguerra” from Il Mondo (September 2, 1924)

Extract: “ALBERTINE DISPARUE: FRAGMENT” from Philosophies (September 15, 1924)

Extract: “LA MORT D’ALBERTINE ᴵ” from La Nouvelle Revue Française (June 1, 1925)

Extract: “C’EST UN DES POUVOIRS DE LA JALOUSIE… ᴵ” from La Nouvelle Revue Française (July 1, 1925)

Extract: “Les débuts de Marcel Proust au « Figaro »” from Le Figaro (December 19, 1925)

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The Sphere

March 20, 1926

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“How all lovers of Marcel Proust must regret the publication of the last two volumes, Albertine Disparue. The executors, in building up his remaining papers, seem to destroy all that his great genius had created.”

Lilith

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4.1

4.1 out of 5 stars (based on 83 reviews)

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