Pierre-Quint, Léon. Marcel Proust: sa vie, son oeuvre and Le Comique et le Mystere chez Proust, 1921, 1927 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Collection Overview

Title: Pierre-Quint, Léon. Marcel Proust: sa vie, son oeuvre and Le Comique et le Mystere chez Proust, 1921, 1927

ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0037

Primary Creator: Pierre-Quint, Leon (1895-1958)

Extent: 2.0 Volumes

Subjects: Proust, Marcel - 1871-1922

Languages: French

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection consists of drafts of two works about French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922), both written by Léon Pierre-Quint (1895-1958). The first volume is a manuscript draft of Marcel Proust: sa vie, son oeuvre (dated April 1921), the first biography written for Marcel Proust. The second volume is a typescript draft of Le Comique et le Mystere chez Proust (dated December 1927). Both drafts include numerous manuscript annotations and revisions, and several additional pages of notes are laid into the front of the second volume.

Collection Historical Note

Léon Pierre-Quint (born Léopold Léon Steindecker) was a French author and publisher. Formerly a novelist, Pierre-Quint began his publishing career in 1923 when he was appointed co-director of Éditions du Sagittaire, a publishing house that became popular among Parisan Surrealists with the publication of André Breton's Manifeste du surréalisme in 1924. Pierre-Quint published Marcel Proust: se vie, son oeuvre (1925), making him an early authority on the literary figure. Pierre-Quint became the sole director of Éditions du Sagittaire in the early 1930s and maintained this title until 1954, when he departed due to the house's financial difficulties.

Source

Alden, Douglas W. "Marcel Proust (10 July 1871-18 November 1922)." In Dictionary of Literary Biography: French Novelists, 1900-1930, edited by Catharine Savage Brosman, 218-254. Detroit: Gale, 1988. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/OLZWZN079199280/DLBC?u=uiuc_uc&sid=bookmark-DLBC&xid=d8494ca9.

Subject/Index Terms

Proust, Marcel - 1871-1922

Administrative Information

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Access Restrictions: The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions:

This collection is the physical property of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, may reside with the materials' creator(s) or their heirs.

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Acquisition Source: Donated by Jean Pierre Selz

Finding Aid Revision History: Revised by Meg Hixon (November 2016) and Dana Miller (December 2023).

Other Note:

Former shelfmark: MS X 845P94 BP61 1921

Former shelfmark: MS X 845P94 BP61 1926

Box and Folder Listing

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Volume 1: Marcel Proust: sa vie, son oeuvre, 1921