Proust's DeadlineMarcel Prousts multivolume masterpiece, la recherche du temps perdu, began to appear in 1913. Over the next fifty years, it gained a reputation as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. But the novels classic image as a completed work was later shattered by the discovery of unpublished drafts, and the war of the Prousts has kept scholars arguing over its definitive form ever since. Christine M. Canos Prousts Deadline presents a