Marcel Proust: A Biography

xxii MARCEL PROUST

I have dedicated this first volume to Henry Reed, my friend of
more than thirty years, with whom I first read Proust in our
schooldays. I have also remembered, after a gulf of twenty-two
years, R. B. and her far-reaching question to me: "Who was
Swann?"

London,

May,l9^59

GEORGE D. PAINTER