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INTRODUCTION

For several years, the excellence of the important Proust Collection at the University of Illinois has been widely recog-nized. The richness and diversity of these holdings make this checklist, in effect, a Proust bibliography. As such, it is another tool to aid the researcher and complements the older bibliographies, each of which has its particular usefulness.

The "Bibliographie proustienne" of G. da Silva Ramos, in Lettres a la NRF (Paris:    Gallimard, Les Cahiers Marcel Proust 6, 1932),

Ts still the most convenient place to find certain details con-cerning some of Proust's publications. Textes retrouvćs (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1968 and Paris:    Gallimard, 1971)

contains a much morę complete listing. For French criticism on Proust through 1939, Douglas W. Alden's Marcel Proust and his French Critics (Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, i940, rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1973) is still invaluable. For English criticism there is John Newton Alley's "English and American Criticism of Marcel Proust" (Ph.D. thesis, University of North Carolina, 1959). Rend de Chantal gives a selective bibliography at the end of his Marcel Proust, critigue littśraire (Montreal:

Les Presses de l'Universitd de Montreal, 196?) . He nr i bonnet brings his "Bibliographie gdnśrale" up to 1970 in his Marcel Proust de 1907 A 1914, ddition nouvelle, augmentde et corrigde (Paris:    A. G. Nizet_# 1971). There are also several shorter,

specialized bibliographies, especially for criticism in particular languages.

In the most up-to-date list of criticism on Proust, Bonnet presents the items chronologically, while Chantal's order is by subject. The present checklist alphabetizes the authors of criticism according to the form of their work (book, article, etc.), thus providing quick reference when the author is what one has best in mind. This checklist seems to be alone in con-sistently listing by author articles that appear in publications devoted entirely to Proust. Needless to say, a good number of items are included that do not appear in the major bibliographies some may not show up in any other bibliography. On the other hand, it lacks other items, either because of lacunae in the holdings (a supplement containing works received when typing was too far along to include them shows the pace in acąuiring additional materiał) or because there has not been time to check all known to exist. A listing of critical reviews is reserved for the futurę, although several longer ones are included here as articles.

Until space is found where the Proust holdings can be brought together, the researcher will find the materiał in this checklist widely dispersed in the University of Illinois Library.

To save time and frustration in searching out those items con-tained in journals and books concerned with other writers as well as Proust, I have begun an off-print collection of them. I have also acąuired off-prints of items the Library does not have. Until the Proust holdings can be relocated, this materiał will be available only by special arrangement. An asterisk before the author's name identifies these items.

It is not practical to give the location of individual books within the Library system. The checklist also does not show the number of copies there are of a particular edition, nor are all the editions always listed. Works by Proust are in chronological order? translations and new editions or reprints follow the original edition.