…undergraduate and just afterwards were French writers. I got sort of my introduction to French literature at that time. I mean, I read Proust when he first came out in 1914, Du Quartier de Chez Swan. Then I read the French poets then. The Mallarmé made…

…get things out of all reasonably good authors and even out of some bad authors that I read. I used to get a lot out of Proust. I reread some of it in the other day and was rather disappointed I don't know why. I mean, it didn't seem to me that…

…de France. I haven't read him for 40 years now. I don't know what he's like. Then I remember reading the first volume of Proust in 1915 and being tremendously impressed by it. And Gide I read at that time. Were you much pleased with Joyce? Never very…