Colm Tóibín coglie l'occasione per fare delle considerazioni interessanti su Marcel e sua mamma e le conseguenze che il loro rapporto hanno sulla scrittura di Marcel. "A specter haunts the exhibition
of Proust’s notebooks, manuscripts, and correspondence currently
running at the Morgan Library. It is the specter of Proust’s mother. As
you move from left to right in the room, the photograph of maman with her two sons, which appears first, sends a shiver down your spine. ...
The first letter sets the scene. It is written to Marcel from his mother
in 1895 when he is twenty-four and in Dieppe with Reynaldo Hahn. She is
concerned about what time he goes to bed and what time he rises. Her
letter is a demand for precise information. So she writes Couche and leaves a blank for him to fill in and then Leve
and leaves another blank. Perhaps it is too fanciful to suggest that
when he did begin to explain himself in his long novel, started a few
years after his mother’s death, he had the lovely idea that his mother,
by dying, had left an enormous blank for him to fill in. She wanted all
the details, she wanted to be spared nothing as she sat on her chair in
heaven, her eyes cast down, and he would do anything to please her. nybooks.
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