Marcel Proust

La jalousie

Jealousy

May 22, 2025
Novel
216 pages
115 × 190 mm
13,90 €
9791039206419
979-1-0392-0641-9

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																Marcel Proust, La jalousie
																Marcel Proust, La jalousie

Returning from an evening with the Princess of Guermantes, where Swann tells him he has changed his mind about Dreyfus, the narrator waits for Albertine. They end the evening together, but his jealousy turns to “distrust” after a remark by Cottard alerts him to the fact that Albertine and Andrée are waltzing “close together” at the Incarville casino. Riddled with doubt, he sets out to spy on Albertine—and his own heart troubled by the suspicion of sapphism.

These lineaments are reminiscent of an episode in Sodom and Gomorrah II, published by Gallimard in 1922, the year of Proust’s death, with variants.

Proust had published them in Les Œuvres libres, in November 1921. Fayard had emphasized Proust’s “extraordinary analytical force”, and he was less than indignant at being called an “original and complete novel” to the taste of the NRF. Paulhan was furious, all the more so as these pages were among the crudest, the ones in which Charlus and Saint-Loup appear. They were also the pages in which Proust invented autofiction.

The author

A world reference in 20th century literature, Marcel Proust (1871-1922) wrote almost every day of his life from the solitude of his bedroom where he composed his monumental In Search of Lost Time. An indefatigable reader, sensitive and anxious, Proust questioned in his work the relationship between time and writing, cultivating the memory of lost moments.

Strong points

This “complete and unpublished novel” is a Proustian curiosity and an ideal introduction to his work;

Jalousie reappears for the first time, followed by La Fin de la jalousie, an earlier novella but a forerunner of the theme that runs through In Search of Lost Time;

a short introduction introduces the author and the book’s genesis;

the centenary of Albertine disparue (1925), which Proust had planned to publish under the title Sodome et Gomorrhe III.

May 22, 2025
Novel
216 pages
115 × 190 mm
13,90 €
9791039206419
979-1-0392-0641-9

“Le Domaine” collection