“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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