Article (GillesHeuré) about the controversial award of the 1919
#PrixGoncourt to
#Proust, « A L’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs », published by then
#NRF), rather than to
#anciencombattant #Dorgelès, « Les Croix de bois ». The award broke with a wartime tradition seeing the prize going to
#soldiers (R. Benjamin,
#Barbusse,
#Malherbe,
#Duhamel) and was seen as a trumping of the worker class by the effete
#bourgeoisie, the
#salon class. Revenge for not winning in 1913,
#SwannsWay (brilliant).