This volume collects the complete writings of Marcel Proust (1871–1922,
wikipedia) in their original French: the books published during his lifetime, the posthumous collections, and his translations of Ruskin books.
À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU
Du côté de chez Swann (1913)
À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919)
Le côté de Guermantes (1920–21)
Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921–22)
La prisonnière (1923)
Albertine disparue (La fugitive) (1925)
Le temps retrouvé (1927)
Les plaisirs et les jours (1896)
John Ruskin: La bible d’Amiens, translated by Proust (1904)
John Ruskin: Sésame et les lys, translated by Proust (1906)
Pastiches et mélanges (1919)
Chroniques (1927)
Jean Santeuil (1952, 1971) (see update v.3.0)
Contre Sainte-Beuve (1954)
Articles et préfaces (1885–1921)
I checked and corrected the formatting by comparing the texts to print editions, assigned classes to all the special cases, made active footnotes (about 550 in the translations alone), and embedded fonts for smallcaps and beauty (and thin non-breaking spaces, see update).
The ‘articles and prefaces’ section contains the questionnaires, the texts from wikisource and the preface to Morand’s “Tendres stocks”. I have proofread those as the available texts weren’t very reliable.
There are tables of contents for the collection and the single books, and links at the end of each chapter that link back to them. I additionally linked to the section breaks in the
Recherche, because 25 chapter links didn’t seem nearly enough for this slightly long novel.
And again, this isn’t complete yet. Jean Santeuil was nowhere to be found (
see update v.3.0) and articles are still very scarce. I intend to update this volume when additional texts become available. So, if anyone of you knows where to find other texts or owns and could scan a book, it would be great if you could send it to me. His preface for Jacques-Emile Blanche’s “Propos de peintre” would be especially welcome.
This is my first French epub, so any feedback is greatly appreciated. Feel free to write in French, but please bear with me when I answer in English.
Best,
pynch.
Update | v.2.0 | 16 September 2012
Completely replaced the
Recherche with the “Bibliothèque électronique du Québec” version and put in the thin non-breaking spaces. For good measure, I put in some drop caps.
Update | v.2.1 | 16 September 2012
Repaired the misbehaving thin spaces.
Update | v.2.2 | 28 December 2012
Corrected three typos.
Update | v.3.0 | 11 May 2014
Added the text of the 1971 edition of
Jean Santeuil and Proust’s preface to
Propos de peintre by Jacques-Émile Blanche.
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