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Merrill's Copy of Proust with Annotations

Proust Facing p. 47 Proust p. 47 Proust p. 191

In "Species of the Sun's Making": Reading Light, Proust to Merrill, Tamara Baker Taylor reproduces several images of the annotations Merrill made in his copy of Proust when he was writing his senior essay at Amherst College. This copy of Remembrance of Things Past, trans. C.K. Moncrieff (New York, 1934) in 4 volumes is held by Special Collections, Washington Univ. Libraries. 

 
Taylor observes that Merrill "explicitly notes Proust's vision through light. In the margin by one of Proust's lines that begins 'Touched by a far flung ray' and ends 'they had caught and kept all the sun,' Merrill composes his own thought: 'light images all through. Ideas are illuminated as by a sun-ray'" (7-8). 
 
Taylor notes that Merrill placed a check mark next to a passage that referred to the "old gold sonorous name of Brabant."
"For Proust"
Merrill's Copy of Proust with Annotations