BONNARD, Abel. Signed autograph letter addressed to Marcel P - Lot 47

BONNARD, Abel. Signed autograph letter addressed to Marcel Proust. A long, visionary letter written after reading *In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower*: “When you have finished your work, you will truly have a universe of your own, where you will reign like a sorcerer.”.. 5 pages, in-4 format (268 x 211 mm). Paris, April 29, 1920. Stain on the first page. A very beautiful letter regarding the reading of *In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower*, the second volume of *In Search of Lost Time*, which was reissued in a deluxe edition after winning the Prix Goncourt and of which the writer Abel Bonnard (1883–1968) received a copy. "The pleasure lies in embarking once more with you on the marvelous exploration of reality. You gather up everything we thought we had scorned—because, in truth, we had not known how to hold onto it or recognize it—and you show us that those discarded pebbles were nothing less than rubies and pearls. You preserve the very essence of even the most fleeting emotions, and when you have completed your work, there will truly be a universe of your own, where you will reign like an enchanter.”... [KOLB, Correspondance de Marcel Proust, Paris, Plon, 1970, p. 252—Volume 19]