*Monsieur avec mustache:* Marcel Proust, author of *Remembrance of Things Past,* 1896.

Time Regained

Publishing next month, the long-lost writings of Marcel Proust promise a window into the mind and work of the French writer

By Adam Sage

The missing work has been the subject of rumors among Parisian academics for decades. Some never stopped searching for it, others doubted its existence and many nourished a hope that it would help them to understand Marcel Proust, probably the most complex French writer of the 20th century.

Now Gallimard, a publishing house, has disclosed that long-lost work, entitled 75 Pages, does exist and will be published next month. It was discovered in bundles of old documents.