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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
Why didn't Proust come up with that? I'm sure he would have loved to have this on the spines of the complete Recherche:
(Illustration lifted from pynch...) |
Ha! Seriously, Proust could not have had a coordinated cover design for
À la recherche du temps perdu because of a few reasons:
1. He had to shop around to find a publisher who would accept the manuscript for the first volume.
2. I believe publication of further volumes in the series was also uncertain, and split between different companies.
3. He died while continuing to write and revise his work. What ended up being published was assembled from a number of typewritten manuscripts and drafts. In fact, a revised version of one of the volumes was published some 70 years after Proust's death, after a previously unknown manuscript came to light in 1986.