Abstract
The contrast between the first narrative unit of the recently published Les Soixante-quinze feuillets, "Une soirée à la campagne", and "Combray", the first chapter of Swann’s Way, allows us to draw new conclusions about the way in which Marcel Proust constructed his work. In this sense, the character of the grandmother, the protagonist in the selected fragments of both versions, constitutes a central point of reference for the narrator self. This paper will focus on certain aspects of the grandmother's personality that have repercussions on the construction of the narrator's childhood perspective and on his idea of art: her way of understanding nature and her relationship with walking and disorder, her concept of social distinction and the projection of these in the aesthetic postulates present in the final work.
Keywords:
grandmother; nature; art; manuscripts