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<\/a>Time Regained<\/em>, the final volume of Marcel Proust\u2019s novel In Search of Lost Time<\/em>, is among the most\u00a0famous literary depictions of World War I. Yet most of Proust\u2019s letters from the war period have never been translated into English. Proust and his relations felt the effects of the war closely: their letters offer vivid testimony of their varied experiences, from the horrors of the front, to social and cultural life in Paris under the threat of bombardments.<\/p>\n Proust and the Great War\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>features the work of graduate students enrolled in the seminar \u201cFrench 578: Marcel Proust\u201d at the University of Illinois. Each student translated, annotated, and wrote an explicatory text about a letter or group of letters held at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. This exhibition, with a small selection and limited features, offers a glimpse of things to come in the forthcoming digital edition<\/a> of Marcel Proust\u2019s letters.<\/p>\n See Part 1 of the exhibition<\/a>, designed in collaboration with graduate students in 2014.<\/p>\n – Letter from Marcel Proust to Lionel Hauser, 26 July [1914]<\/a>, by Fran\u00e7ois Proulx<\/em><\/p>\n – Letter from Marcel Proust to Lionel Hauser, [27 August 1915]<\/a>, by Julien Berthelon<\/em><\/p>\n – Letter from\u00a0Marcel Proust to Antoine Bibesco, [c. 9 September 1915]<\/a>, by Francesca Roncoroni<\/em><\/p>\n – Letters from Marcel Proust to Lionel Hauser, [27 May 1916], and from Lionel Hauser to Marcel Proust, 29 May 1916<\/a>, by Nicolas Portugal<\/em><\/p>\n – Letter from Marcel Proust to a friend, [first half of July 1916]<\/a>, by Cl\u00e9ment Dubuisson<\/em><\/p>\n – Letters from Robert de Montesquiou to Marcel Proust, 25 December 1916, and\u00a0Marcel Proust to Madame Straus, [c. 27 December 1916]<\/a>, by Emily Swisher<\/em><\/p>\n – Letter from Marcel Proust to Jacques H\u00e9bertot, 31 January 1917<\/a>, by Sabrina Y. Lee<\/em><\/p>\n – Letter from Marcel Proust to Paul Goldschmidt, [c. December 1917]<\/a>, by Claire Baytas<\/em><\/p>\n – Letter from\u00a0Gaston Calmann-L\u00e9vy to Marcel Proust,\u00a025 June 1918<\/a>, by Anne Mutidjo<\/em><\/p>\n – Letters from\u00a0Le Figaro<\/em> to Marcel Proust, 24 September 1918,\u00a0Marcel Proust to Berthe Lemari\u00e9, [5(?) December 1918], and\u00a0Marcel Proust to Daniel Hal\u00e9vy, [shortly after 5 December 1918]<\/a>, by Mouna Benbouazza<\/em><\/p>\n – Letter from\u00a0Marcel Proust to Daniel Hal\u00e9vy, [19 July 1919]<\/a>, by Anoosheh Ghaderi<\/em><\/p>\n The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois houses over 1,200 letters to and from Marcel Proust, making it the largest collection of Proust\u2019s letters in the world. This unique collection was built to support the remarkable work of Philip Kolb<\/a>, who spent decades editing Proust\u2019s vast correspondence. Today the collection continues to grow in collaboration with the Kolb-Proust Archive for Research<\/a>. An updated, entirely digital edition of Proust\u2019s correspondence has recently been undertaken\u00a0by a research partnership<\/a> bringing together the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes, and the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (CNRS-ENS, Paris).<\/p>\n Selected Letters at the University of Illinois by Fran\u00e7ois Proulx, Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian Time Regained, the final volume of Marcel Proust\u2019s novel In Search of Lost Time, is among the most\u00a0famous literary depictions of World War I. 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