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Publishing Proust.(Book review)
From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20070301
Author:Holleran, Andrew
Proust's Deadline
by Christine M. Cano
University of Illinois Press
160 pages, $35.
CHRISTINE M. CANO begins her fascinating book on just how Proust's novel was published with a remark by Anatole France that seems doubly cruel, considering that Proust had once considered France his mentor: "Life is too short, and Proust is too long." However, that is how many people regarded In Search of Lost Time when Proust tried to find a publisher for his enormous manuscript in the fall of 1912. One editor famously groused that he did not see how anyone could write so many ...
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