Letters to His Neighbor Read online

  Gagey, Dr. Emile and Mme 75, 77, 78, 81, 82

  Gandolff, Léopold 100n46

  Gide, André 36, 46, 83

  Giotto di Bondone 9, 58

  Glaber, Raoul 101n55

  Golden Legend, The 68, 101n53

  Gospel according to John 95n13

  Grand Hôtel de Cabourg 89

  Grasset 96n20

  Greffulhe, Henri, Count 98n33

  Guitry, Lucien 101n51

  Hahn, Reynaldo 29, 52, 64, 80–81, 82, 84, 94n10, 97n27, 99n44

  Halévy, Geneviève. See Straus, Geneviève

  Haussmann, Boulevard 7, 13, 28, 60–61, 62, 73, 75, 76, 85, 91

  Hayman, Laure 7

  Helleu, Paul 70

  Heugel 94n8

  Hôpital Beaujon 96n16

  Hôtel d’Albe 54, 98n31

  Houlgate 89–90

  Hugo, Victor 93n2

  Illiers-Combray 74, 79

  Impressions That Remained – Memoirs of Ethel Smyth 95n14

  Jouy, Jules 100n46

  Kafka, Franz 75

  Katz, Mme 75

  Kolb, Philip 12

  La Béraudière, Mme de 55, 98n33

  La Bible d’Amiens (Ruskin) 68, 82

  Lamartine, Alphonse de 9

  La Nouvelle Revue Francaise 11, 36, 44, 46, 96n17

  La terre (Jules Jouy) 100n46

  Legras powders 74

  L’Eldorado 100n46

  Le Nouvel Observateur 88

  Lerossignol, M. 89–90

  Le ruban dénoué (Reynaldo Hahn) 80, 99n44

  Les Béatitudes (Franck) 9, 65, 100n47

  Les Chimères (Nerval) 97n24

  Les contemplations (Hugo) 93n2

  Les offrandes blessés: Elégies guerrières (Robert de Montesquiou) 100n49

  Les tragiques (Agrippa d’Aubigné) 97n24

  Le Vésinet 93n7

  L’île du soleil couchant (Joachim Clary) 95n14

  Lives of the Saints. See Acta Sanctorum

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 87

  Louvain 68

  Maeterlinck, Maurice 97n23, 97n25

  “Major, the,” 53, 56–57, 98n35

  Mallarmé, Stéphane 97n23

  Mametz 97n27

  Mante-Proust, Suzy 12

  Maupassant, Guy de 7

  Mauriac-Dyer, Nathalie 94n11

  Mes heures perdues (Félix Arvers) 99n42

  Monbrison, Jacqueline de. See Rehbinder, Countess Wladimir

  Montesquiou, Count Robert de 11, 20, 66, 81, 93n6, 95n14, 100n49

  Morand, Paul 83

  Musée Carnavalet 79

  Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits 14, 88

  Nerval, Gérard de 47, 97n24

  Noailles, Countess Anna de 47, 79, 84, 96n22

  Normandy 25, 89, 93n7

  Notre Dame 68

  Our Hearts (Maupassant) 7

  Pallu, Alphonse 97n28

  Pallu, Marie. See Williams, Marie

  Parsifal (Wagner) 9

  Pelléas and Mélisande (Debussy & Maeterlinck) 47, 60, 97n25, 99n40

  Pernolet, Arthur 82

  Poulet Quartet 81

  “Prométhée triomphant” (Reynaldo Hahn & Paul Reboux) 29, 94n10

  Proust Museum 74

  Proust, Robert 12

  Proust Society 74

  Reboux, Paul 94n10

  Régnier, Marie de 47, 84

  Rehbinder, Countess Wladimir 55, 98n32

  Reims 10, 13, 68–69, 85, 101n52

  Reszke, Edouard de 99n39

  Reszke, Jean de 9, 58, 99n39

  Rostand, Maurice 37, 81, 96n18

  Rubinstein, Ida 66, 100n49

  Rue du Colisée 55

  Rue Galilée 55

  Ruskin, John 27, 57, 82, 85

  Sagesse (Verlaine) 97n24, 99n38

  Sainte-Chapelle 60, 85

  Schéikevitch, Marie 101n53

  Schwickerath, Eberhard 94n10

  Smyth, Ethel 95n14

  Stones of Venice, The (Ruskin) 10, 69, 85

  Straus, Geneviève 7, 8, 19, 66, 93n1, 93n4

  Théâtre Antoine 100n50

  Théâtre de la Renaissance 101n51

  Théâtre du Châtelet 100n46

  Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt 100n49

  Thérésa (Emma Valladon) 64, 82, 100n46

  Terre, Mme 58, 60, 98n37, 99n41, 100n46

  Trépof, Princess 101n53

  Trouville 33

  Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis 94n11

  Vauquois 97n27

  Verlaine, Paul 8, 20, 47, 58, 97n24, 99n38

  Versailles 75

  Virgil 96n19

  von Otter, Anne Sofie 81

  Williams, Doctor, passim

  Williams, Marie, passim

  Williams, son, passim

  Wolff Agency 60, 99n40

  Works and characters of Proust

  Guermantes Way, The 9, 11, 96n17, 96n20

  In Search of Lost Time 9, 73, 85, 93n6, 95n14, 96n21

  In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower 11–12, 96n17, 96n20, 97n26

  Pastiches 94n9

  Pleasures and Days 27, 94n8, 100n48

  Portraits of Painters 27, 94n8

  Swann’s Way 11, 36, 44, 94n9, 96n18

  Time Found Again 11, 95n14

  Charlus, Baron de 11, 12, 44, 93n6, 95n14

  Périgot, Joseph 9

  Saint-Loup, Robert de 11

  Simonet, Albertine 12

  Swann, Charles 11, 44

  Swann, Odette 7, 11, 44

  Tante Léonie 74

  Copyright © 2017 by New Directions Publishing Corporation

  Translation copyright © 2017 by Lydia Davis

  Proust letters and critical apparatus copyright © 2013 by Éditions Gallimard

  All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.

  Published by arrangement with Éditions Gallimard. New Directions is grateful to Éditions Gallimard for providing the facsimiles and photographs, and for facilitating their use in this edition.

  Facsimiles of Proust’s letters are courtesy of a private collection/Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, Paris

  Photographs on pages 16, 17, and 63 are courtesy of the Gérard Emler collection

  Photograph on page 72 © Hulton Archive/Apic/Getty Images

  Originally published in French as Lettres à sa voisine

  First published as a New Directions Book in 2017

  Manufactured in the United States of America

  Design by Erik Rieselbach

  publisher’s note: New Directions would like to give special thanks and appreciation to Lindsay Turner for her painstaking assistance with the preparation of Letters to His Neighbor.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922. | Davis, Lydia, 1947– translator. | Gaudry, Estelle, editor. |

  Tadié, Jean-Yves, 1936– editor, writer of foreword.

  Title: Letters to his neighbor / Marcel Proust ; translated by Lydia Davis ; text edited and annotated by Estelle Gaudry and Jean-Yves Tadié ; foreword by Jean-Yves Tadié ; translator’s afterword by Lydia Davis.

  Description: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017000591 | ISBN 9780811224116 (alk. paper)

  Subjects: LCSH: Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922—Correspondence. | Williams, Marie, 1885–1931—Corresponden
ce. | Authors, French—19th century—Correspondence. | Authors, French—20th century—Correspondence.

  Classification: LCC PQ2631.R63 A2 2017 | DDC 846/.912—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017000591

  eISBN: 9780811224123

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