{"id":2511,"date":"2017-07-24T18:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T18:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-dev.library.illinois.edu\/staff\/kolbp\/about\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T20:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:48:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/kolbproust\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Kolb-Proust Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"colCenter\">\n<p>   In the fall of 1993 the Kolb-Proust Archive for Research was organized at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Professor Robert Wedgeworth, then University Librarian, established the Archive in order to make available to scholars world-wide, through the Internet, the research notes and documentation of   <a href=\"\/rbx\/kolbp\/philipkolb\/\">    Philip Kolb   <\/a>   , professor of French at the University of Illinois and editor of the correspondence of Marcel Proust. Today the first series of documents from the collection are accessible on the World-Wide Web through a searchable SGML-encoded Virtual Archive.   <\/p>\n<p>   After coming to the University as a professor of French in 1945, Philip Kolb worked indefatigably on the editing of Proust&#8217;s correspondence until just before his death in 1992. That same year saw the completion of his 21-volume set of the correspondence issued by the publisher Plon, in Paris. Kolb left behind a treasure-trove of research notes concerning Proust&#8217;s letters which offer researchers information relating not only to Proust scholarship, but also to   <a href=\"\/rbx\/kolbp\/categories\" title=\"Categories\">    turn-of-the-century French intellectual life   <\/a>   in general. Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, and Gabriel Faur\u00e9, the composer, are among the many persons of various professions represented in Kolb&#8217;s notes. Photocopies of a large number of Proust&#8217;s letters are also housed in the Archive. These complement one of the largest existing collections of original Proust letters, stored in the   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/\" title=\"Rare Books Library\">    Rare Book and Special Collections Library   <\/a>   .  <\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"\/rbx\/kolbp\/fr\/centre\">    French version\/version fran\u00e7aise   <\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 1993 the Kolb-Proust Archive for Research was organized at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Professor Robert Wedgeworth, then University Librarian, established the Archive in order to make available to scholars world-wide, through the Internet, the research notes and documentation of Philip Kolb , professor of French at the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":2509,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2511","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2511\/revisions\/2653"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}