Bī'iḥsās: Persiska (Farsi) 1399

"Adiaforos" and other texts of his youth From 1893 to 1896 the young Proust sharpened his knives as a writer for the magazine La Revue blanche. Fragmentarily, he pre-plans a personal, yet future, universe. The homosexual confession in "Before Night Falls" exposes the tensions of lust-pain, the short "Remembrance" focuses entirely on the power of sensation, while "Against Ambiguity", his last text for La Revue blanche, affirms his interest in adopting a militant stance, but also his will to develop a problematization around the truth of literature. These texts, which will not be included in the collection "Tolerances and Days", his first book published in 1896, approach themes that will run through the entire work of "In Search of Lost Time". In "Indifferent", as in "Before Night Falls", lust dominates. This short story was first published on March 1, 1896 in La vie contemporaine et Revue parisienne reunions. With the condensed narrative plot and the perfect closure of the story, the author remains faithful to the stylistic requirements of the short story. It follows the perspective of a woman in love and establishes the phenomenology of passionate consciousness, studying and analyzing love throughout its duration (from the moment it is born to its end), in its various complexities (social and interpersonal) and in its emotional state (love in Proust is a calvary)...