Marcel Proust paid for reviews praising his work to go into newspapers

Novelist paid for flattering reviews of Swann’s Way to go on front pages of French newspapers, as revealed in letters to be auctioned by Sotheby’s

The French writer Marcel Proust paid for glowing reviews of the first volume of his “Remembrance of Things Past” to be put into newspapers, letters by the great author reveal.

The novelist wrote the notices himself and sent them to be typed up by his publisher “so there is no trace of my handwriting” to distance himself “absolutely from the money that will change hands”.

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