2nd only to Proust in 20th century French Literature
So goes the introduction to this, which presents to my inner eye as the latest in a line of authors and sources to be "the thing", this means they are someone or some thing which I may have heard of before, but haven't yet splurged on, and begun reading with the knowledge of them as that which I will get all I can by and about.

I'm not gonna treat Colette like I did and will be with Rilke, rather I shall get one volume per month, the collected tales volume may be the one, .... and maybe just one biography to begin.