MARCEL PROUST: A CENTENNIAL VOLUME, edited by Peter Quennell. 216 pages. Simon & Schuster. $12.95.
It takes talent to recognize genius. Marcel Proust caught his first readers napping. One of the publishers to whom he submitted the first volume of his seven-volume masterpiece Remembrance of Things Past rejected it, explaining: "I cannot understand why a gentleman should employ 30 pages to describe how he turns and returns on his bed before going to sleep." When that first volume, Swann's Way, finally appeared in print in 1913at Proust's expensean influential critic dismissed...
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