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In 1994, \textit{H. Attouch}, \textit{J. B. Baillon} and \textit{M. Théra} [J. Convex Anal. 1, No. 1, 1-29 (1994; Zbl 0824.47044)] presented a generalized sum rule for subdifferentials of convex functions. It was proved that for lower semicontinuous functions on Hilbert spaces it is \[ \partial(f+ g)= \partial f\underset\vee{}+ \partial g, \] where \(``\underset\vee{} +\)'' means the variational sum according to \[ \partial f\underset\vee{} +\partial g=\|\cdot \|- \liminf_{\lambda,\mu\to 0_+} (\partial f_\lambda+\partial g_\mu) \] and \(f_\lambda\), \(g_\mu\) are the Moreau-Yoshida regularized functions of \(f\) and \(g\), respectively. In the present paper, the author gives a short proof of this result, even extended to reflexive Banach spaces. The proof is based on the Ekeland's variational principle. The obtained results are applied to derive chain rules for subdifferentials and to estimate the subdifferential of marginal functions. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00033].