Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0024215, Sat, 11 May 2013 09:53:08 -0400

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VN, Cocteau, Proust
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Abdel Bouazza writes:




VN already cited Cocteau in Lectures on Literature, p. 208 (1st ed.):

“Jean Cocteau has called the work ‘A giant miniature, full of mirages, of
> superimposed gardens, of games conducted between space and time.’”
>
> Beckett does not mention Cocteau in his booklet Proust (1931).
>
> On page 73 of the delightful Album Cocteau of the Bibliothèque de la
> Pléiade
> (Gallimard 2006) we read the following:
>
>
> Le 23 novembre, l’étude émerveillée sur Du côté de chez Swann, que publie
> Cocteau dans Excelsior, a le Bonheur d’intéresser Gide et Ghéon à la
> “miniature geante” pleine de duchesses qu’ils avaient négligée.
>
>
> The article entitled “Marcel Proust” appeared in the 23 November 1913 issue
> of Excelsior.
>
>
>
> A. Bouazza
>
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>
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