GRE阅读练习每日一篇(三十七)_GRE阅读

GRE阅读练习每日一篇(三十七)

　　Fallois s comments in the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve

　　Proust s 1909 notebooks, including the drafts of Remembrance of Things Past

　　Proust s 1909 correspondence, excluding the letter to Vallette

　　Bardeche s Marcel Proust, romancier

　　Bonnet s researches concerning Proust s drafts of the final book of Remembrance of Things Past

　　26. The passage offers information to answer which of the following questions?

　　Precisely when in 1909 did Proust decide to abandon Contre Saint-Beuve?

　　Precisely when in 1909 did Proust decide to connect the beginning and the end of Remembrance of Things Past?

　　What was the subject of the novel that Proust attempted in 1908?

　　What specific criticisms of Saint-Beuve appear, in fictional form, in Remembrance of Things Past?

　　What is a theme concerning art that appears in the final book of Remembrance of Things Past?

　　27. Which of the following best describes the relationship between Contre Saint-Beuve and Remembrance of Things Past as it is explained in the passage?

　　Immediately after abandoning Contre Saint-Beuve, at Vallette s suggestion, Proust started Remembrance as a fictional demonstration that Saint-Beuve was wrong about the imagination.