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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