Reynolde Jalla - Du côté de Combray avec Marcel Proust - 1956

On the Side of Combray with Marcel Proust, by Reynolde-Jalla

Foreword by André Maurois

Dedication by Reynolde-Jalla, the watercolourist. Numbered copy (25) on BFK Rives

Well complete with the 16 watercolors.

"On the Side of Combray with Marcel Proust" is a work by Reynolde-Jalla, a Proustian author, a passionate guide to the landscapes and places that fed Marcel Proust’s imagination and inspired his monumental work, In Search of Lost Time. This book invites the reader to follow in Marcel Proust’s footsteps in the environs of Illiers-Combray, a town in Eure-et-Loir that served as the model for the famous Combray in the Recherche. Halfway between a literary guide and a Proustian essay, the work makes real places and the pages of the novel dialogue with a rare sensitivity and erudition.

The reader explores landscapes, paths, churches and gardens that marked Proust’s childhood and nourished his writing — hawthorns, bell towers, the sides of Meséglise and Guermantes — all enriched with illustrations and quotations drawn from the work. A precious work for all lovers of Marcel Proust, for enthusiasts of French literature, and for literary travelers in search of the sources of the Recherche, this book is an ideal walking companion for anyone who wishes to experience Combray from the inside, between memory, landscape and literature.

1956, 26 x 33 cm, unpaginated (about 50 blank pages under a printed and folded cover). A longitudinal crease on the title page, a few fingerprint marks on its back. Two stamps on the page preceding a watercolour, outside the text, probably a child’s play.