March 6, 2011
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De naakte waarheid [The Naked Truth. Aphorisms and other Short Notes], trans. by Wim Scholtens, ...
Proust began to shape a novel centered on a first-person narrator who is unable to sleep and during the night remembers waiting as a child for his mother to come to him in the morning.
In 1913, in response to Marcel Proust’s submission to the Ollendorf publishing company of Swann’s Way - the first volume of what would become In Search of Lost Time Alfred Humblot, the head of the Ollendorff publishing company, rejected it, observing:
- "I may be as thick as two planks but I can’t understand how a gentleman can take thirty pages to describe how he tosses and turns in his bed before going off to sleep."
«Je suis peut-être bouché à l'émeri, mais je ne puis comprendre qu'un monsieur puisse employer trente pages à décrire comment il se tourne et se retourne dans son lit avant de trouver le sommeil !»
Morning (Karl Friedrich Schinkel) (1813) Karl Friedrich Schinkel
The Last Laugh (1924) – Murnau
