Proust in 1923 A look at a homage

The Nouvelle Revue française’s homage to Proust the day after his death consecrated the journal and its director, Jacques Rivière—whose mediation efforts succeeded in imposing À la recherche du temps perdu at the heart of a long-reluctant group—once and for all within the French literary scene. The analysis of the two sections that make up the homage aims to highlight certain salient elements regarding both the author and his work, as they appeared to his contemporaries.