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Saint-Simon and Proust
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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The writers with whom Marcel Proust is most commonly compared are probably Balzac, Flaubert, La Bruyère, and principally, of course, Saint-Simon. I have chosen the latter for particular comparison with Proust because these two present many obvious and interesting similarities. It may be noted first of all that Proust had studied Saint-Simon so attentively that he had attained a certain “saturation” in his style and method.
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page 608 note 1 Léon Pierre-Quint, Comment travaillait Proust, p. 54.
page 608 note 2 A de Boislisle, “Mémoires de Saint-Simon,” (43 vols., Paris, 1923, i, iii).
page 608 note 3 E. Pilastre, Lexique Sommaire de la langue du Duc de Saint-Simon, (Paris, 1905).
page 608 note 4 Pierre Adam, La Langue du Duc de Saint-Simon, (Paris, 1920).
page 608 note 5 Pierre-Quint, Proust's principal biographer (Léon Pierre-Quint, Marcel Proust, p. 61) tells us that the novelist possessed unusual gift of imitation, and that for years before the publication of Pastiches et Mélanges he had used this talent to amuse his friends in the fashionable salons which he frequented.
page 609 note 6 Marcel Proust, Pastiches et Mélanges, p. 259.
page 610 note 7 Ibid., p. 269.
page 610 note 8 All citations from Saint-Simon in this paper are from the edition of his Mémoires of A. de Boislisle. (Paris, 1923.)
page 610 note 9 Pp. 38–40.
page 610 note 10 Pp. 7–20.
page 610 note 11 Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé, pp. 7–80.
page 611 note 12 Marcel Proust, Chroniques, p. 88.
page 611 note 13 Mémoires, vol. 18, pp. 195–197.
page 611 note 14 Ibid., vol. 5, pp. 7–11.
page 612 note 15 Ibid., vol. 35, pp. 307–308.
page 612 note 16 Proust, Chroniques, p. 22.
page 612 note 17 Proust, Le Temps retrouvé, ii, 251.
page 612 note 18 Jacques-Emile Blanche, in Mes Modèles, in Les Nouvelles Littéraires.
page 612 note 19 Proust, A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs, ii, 32.
page 612 note 20 Proust, Chroniques, p. 52.
page 612 note 21 Mémoires, xxviii. Most of this volume is devoted to Louis XIV.
page 612 note 22 Ibid., xxv, 220–221.
page 613 note 23 Ibid., xxxvi, 136.
page 613 note 24 Ibid., iii, 332.
page 613 note 25 Ibid., xxxvn, 8.
page 613 note 26 Ibid., xxi, 32.
page 613 note 27 Ibid., xxxviii, 109.
page 613 note 28 Ibid., viii, 72.
page 614 note 29 Saint-Simon considéré comme Historien de Louis XIV.
page 614 note 30 Nouveaux Lundis, x, 256–279.
page 614 note 31 Ibid., p. 257.
page 614 note 32 Ibid., p. 279.
page 614 note 33 Proust, Le Temps retrouvé, i, 207.
page 615 note 34 Léon Pierre-Quint, Op. cit., p. 63.
page 615 note 35 Rose Lee, “Cities of the Plain,” N.Y. Times Book Review, Jan. 8, 1928.
page 615 note 36 Mémoires, Vol. 41, pp. 335–336.
page 615 note 37 Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, Vol. 15, pp. 258–259.
page 616 note 38 Léon Pierre-Quint, op. cit., p. 132.
page 616 note 39 Ibid., p. 134. These two quotations give but an imperfect idea of Pierre-Quint's profound and brilliant analysis of the style of Proust. Only a careful study of this whole chapter (no. 2) on Le Style can convey an adequate conception of its value.
page 616 note 40 Proust, Chroniques, p. 201.
page 617 note 41 Chroniques, p. 204.
page 617 note 42 Mémoires, xli, 331.
page 617 note 43 Ibid. xxviii, 224–232.