Marcel Proust’s paperoles

When drafting, Proust would make room for elaborate insertions and commentary by affixing extra strips of paper to the pages.

He would also write using only one side of a composition book, so that the other side could contain elaborations and scratch.


Opposite, one of the 8 very important paperwork, and one of the longest (175 x 745 mm). The famous "paperoles", these strips of paper made up of fragments glued end to end, then at the top or bottom of a manuscript page, allowed Proust to bring to the text of In Search of Lost Time what he called his "overfood".
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