Review: Peter Brooks on lost manuscripts of Proust

The hyperbole has been intense. Seventy-five manuscript pages found in 2018 offer us the “Proustian Grail,” according to Gallimard, their French publisher. And for Marcel Proust’s admirable and indefatigable biographer, Jean-Yves Tadié, they represent the “sacred moment” of first creation. They provide the long-lost and sought-for key to the oeuvre, sin…