by Marcel Proust, Charlotte Mandell
Cute and witty, but I'd rather Proust be Proust.
Hardly a novella, but thankfully finally translated into English as part of Melville House’s The Art of the Novella series, The Lemoine Affair occupies a curious place in Proust’s work.
Written over a period of four years (1904-1908) before Proust began to conceive and draft what would become his m...