![]() ![]() The literary journal La Nouvelle Revue Française passed in part because they considered Proust’s writing too aristocratic and Marc Humblot, another prospective publisher, found it prohibitively verbose, explaining that he “just can’t understand why anyone should take thirty pages to describe how he tosses about in bed because he can’t get to sleep.” Proust first sent them to a well-known publisher named Fasquelle, who suggested so many edits that the author decided to look elsewhere. But getting someone to back the several hundred meandering pages that made up the first volume of Lost Time proved difficult. Proust had published essays and short stories in magazines and newspapers before, and some of those short stories were even released in a book called Pleasures and Days in 1896. Within a Budding Grove In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower ![]()
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