3. "An Opuscule" (1909-1913)

Proust began to work on a new project in 1908 that would gradually become his novel In Search of Lost Time. 

In November 1909, he writes to another correspondent:

“I read the opening (200 pages!) to Reynaldo and his response greatly encouraged me […] I now feel it is my duty above all else to work toward finishing this.”

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Marcel Proust. Letter to Georges de Lauris [late Nov. 1909]. b 94M-48 (108), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Gift, Mrs. Bradley Martin, 1994.