| Research Abstract |
Proust's roman, "A la recherche au temps perdu" has a theme of oblivion as one of the essential themes. But Nathalie Mauriac had published a new version of the 6th volume, based on discovery of a typed proof, which doesn't contain this theme. I had presented a hypothesis, saying that this typed proof was destined to the review "Les Oeuvres libres", and not the "final version". In order to prove that the theme of oblivion is quite indispensable to the structure of Proust's roman, I tried to elucidate that this important theme was introduced at the same time as the creation of Albertine by Proust. By a comparison between "Grasset's proofs of 1914" and final version of the 2nd volume, this time, I made clear that the roman would be greatly modified from 1914, when Proust created the personage of Albertine.
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