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Albertine the Ambiguous: Notes on Proust's Transposition of Sexes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Justin O'brien*
Affiliation:
Columbia University New York 27, N.Y.

Extract

On the evening of 13 May 1921 André Gide spent an hour with Marcel Proust, apparently for the first time in several years. For the past four days Proust had sent a car and chauffeur to fetch Gide every evening. Finally on the night when the latter could come, the invalid who had not been up in some time, had dressed to go out. The meeting took place in the little salon at 44, rue Hamelin, with its hideous Barbedienne bronze on the mantel and the Jacques Blanche portrait of the foppish young Marcel on the next wall. To one the atmosphere seemed stifling, but the other, having just left a still warmer room, was shivering.

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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1949

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