Un autografo inedito di Proust (e un suo coevo ritratto a matita) al Terziere

Gian Mario Anselmi

doi:10.6092/issn.2240-3604/19518

An Unpublished Autograph by Proust (and a Contemporary Pencil Portrait of Him) at the Terziere

Authors

Gian Mario Anselmi Università di Bologna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-3604/19518

Keywords:

Marcel Proust, Jacques Emile Blanche, letters, autographs

Abstract

The essay provides news and publishes the text of a short handwritten letter (unknown until today) by Marcel Proust addressed to a «chère Madame». The letter, purchased by Bononi and hung under glass on one of the walls of his library, forms a sort of diptych with a pencil portrait of the great French writer very similar to the famous one painted in 1892 by Jacques-Émile Blanche.