An Unpublished Autograph by Proust (and a Contemporary Pencil Portrait of Him) at the Terziere

Abstract

The essay provides news and publishes the text of a short handwritten letter (unknown until today) by Marcel Proust addressed to a «chère Madame». The letter, purchased by Bononi and hung under glass on one of the walls of his library, forms a sort of diptych with a pencil portrait of the great French writer very similar to the famous one painted in 1892 by Jacques-Émile Blanche.

Keywords

• marcel proust
• jacques emile blanche
• letters
• autographs