Posted by Joffre on 24/10/2009, 15:41:47, in reply to "Re: my nominations"
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I believe they were friends afterward, Lale. Gide rejected the manuscript without having read it. He considered Proust a social butterfly and didn't imagine him capable of writing anything worthwhile. He apologized, and Proust understood. Still, it probably is the biggest blunder in literary history. I imagine Gide endured as many questions as the coach who cut Michael Jordan from his highschool basketball team.
I suppose I should look into Gide's journals. I'd be very interested in any great author's reading journals, or at least selections from their reading journals. The Counterfeiters was the first Gide I read. I read it in Paris. I thought it was fantastic. I was much less impressed by The Immoralist. I've read his two autobiographical works, Madeleine and Si le grain ne meurt. I like the first of those quite well. I've long wanted to read Vatican Cellars, but it's long been out of print. This past year, I've been getting used copies of some of those out-of-print books that I want to read.
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