Two publishers, Fasquelle and Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), had turned it down. NRF did so because, as André Gide sniffily told Proust’s friend Prince Antoine Bibesco, ‘we publish serious books.

A 20 th-century survey of literature focused on same-sex themes. Close reading of works from Western Europe and the United States by Proust, Mann, Lorca, Baldwin, Cather, Moraga, Ashbery, Schuyler, ...

and Proust is today. Look at Game of Thrones, a long series lasting several seasons. The books of Proust have the same characters from beginning to end, we are talking about years. L'apres midi d ...