Article: The Growth of 'A la recherche du temps perdu': A Chronological Examination of Proust's Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914, vol. I: 1909-1911; vol. II: 1911-1914.(Book review)

The Growth of 'A la recherche du temps perdu': A Chronological Examination of Proust's Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914, vol. I: 1909-1911; vol. II: 1911-1914. By ANTHONY R. PUGH. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2004. Vol. I: xxxiv+376 pp.; vol. II: xx+447 pp. 96 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-8818-x (set).

This work provides a form of double testimony. Not only does it capture Proust's tireless compositional drive as A la recherche du temps perdu came falteringly into focus and assumed concrete, material form between 1909 and the outbreak of the First World War, but additionally, in tracking so meticulously the genesis of Proust's magnum ...

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