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The Banquet Paris, Librairie Rouquette then Briquet, March, May, June, July, November 1892 and February, March 1893. 7 fascicles, large octavo (28 x 18 cm), covers slightly worn, a few faint stains. Missing fascicle no. 2, from April 1892, already noted as unobtainable by Fernand Gregh in 1958 in Mon amitié avec Marcel Proust, p. 28. The Banquet, whose title…
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Paris, Librairie Rouquette then Briquet, March, May, June, July, November 1892 and February, March 1893.
7 fascicles, large octavo (28 x 18 cm), covers slightly worn, a few faint stains. Missing fascicle no. 2, from April 1892, already noted as unobtainable by Fernand Gregh in 1958 in Mon amitié avec Marcel Proust, p. 28.
The Banquet, whose title was chosen as a tribute to Plato, was founded in 1892 by Proust and several disciples from the Lycée Condorcet—Jacques Bizet, Fernand Gregh (the journal’s editor), Robert Dreyfus, Louis de La Salle, Daniel Halévy, and Horace Finaly—who met in the mezzanine of the Rouquette bookshop in the Passage Choiseul. Financed by the contributors’ subscriptions (each paying ten francs per month), the journal was printed in 400 copies for the first issue and 200 for subsequent ones.
It ceased publication a year later, after eight issues. According to Robert Dreyfus, financial reasons were likely to blame: ‘After the eighth issue, our journal disappeared without explanation: the coffers were empty—and besides, we had had our fun…’ When the journal folded, its founders joined the already renowned Revue Blanche (October 1891–January 1903) of the Natanson brothers.
The stated aim of The Banquet, as Proust wrote to Robert Dreyfus, was to ‘publish our works’. Indeed, it was in The Banquet that Proust published his earliest texts. His studies, reviews, and an essay appeared in issues 1 to 3 and 5 to 7. Issue 7 featured Violante ou la mondanité, conte, Proust’s first true short story, later included in Les Plaisirs et les Jours. ‘The Banquet contains the germ of À la recherche du temps perdu—however different that germ may seem from the future tree… One encounters Mme Hayman as the courtesan Heldemone, Mme Straus as a lady “whose intelligence was betrayed only by a more subtle grace”, and Mme de Chevigné as a bird-goddess…’ (G. Painter, Marcel Proust, I, p. 161).
Proust’s texts in detail: ‘Études. Les Maîtresses de Fabrice’, no. 2, April 1892, p. 41. — ‘Études. Cydalise’, no. 2, April 1892, p. 42–43. — ‘Études. Esquisse d’après Madame ’, no. 3, May 1892, p. 78. — ‘Études. La Mer’, no. 6, November 1892, p. 170–171. — ‘Varia: Tel qu’en songe by Henri de Régnier’, no. 6, November 1892, p. 171–172. — ‘Études II. Portrait de Madame ’, no. 6, November 1892, p. 191. — ‘Violante ou la mondanité: conte’, no. 7, February 1893, p. 201–208. — According to Robert Dreyfus’s recollections, ‘L’Irréligion d’État’ (no. 3, May 1892), signed ‘Laurence’, is also by Proust.
Ref.: J. Deguy, ‘Étude de la revue Le Banquet’, Bulletin d’informations proustiennes, no. 4, 1976, pp. 29–43. — Wikipedia — Le Mensuel retrouvé, ed. Jérôme Prieur, Les Busclats, 2012
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