Abstract: In Albertine disparue, Proust revisits the fin-de-siècle stereotype of the ‘Venice ruin’ by way of allusions to the fall of the Campanile de Saint-Marc, the final scene of the Sole mio audition, the ice cream episode in La Prisonnière, and futurist resonances. From 1919, the intensification of this theme can be observed, as well as its performative return to the genesis of the episode, where editorial repairs mask its unfinished status.
