Marcel Proust: A Biography

16~ MARCEL PROUST painting of the Empress Eugenie's ladies-in-waiting. She was notorious for talking throughout the performance ...

THE G UERMANTES WAY stringed bonnets, wasp-waist, curled fringe and high dog-collar. But when asked by admiring rivals where som ...

MARCEL PROUST fever at Kabinda in the Sudan in 1893, in the fourteenth month of his journey across Africa. This suggested Saint- ...

THE GUERMANTES WAY have the smallest ears in Paris, and wore red to set off her dark hair and her celebrated blue eyes. We have ...

166 MARCEL PROUST contributing for a moment to the character of Mme de Cam- bremer, and in 1920 her husband prefiguring the old ...

THE GUERMANTES WAY plete. We shall encounter most of them again, in their place and time, and see what further use Proust made o ...

168 MARCEL PROUST devices. Proust reproduced the situation accurately in his novel. The Narrator visits Mme de Villeparisis and ...

, Portrait of Proust by Jacques-Emile Blanche, ,892. ...

2 TOP LEFT Portrait of Dr Adrien Proust by Lecomte du Nouy, 188 5. 3 ABOVE Mme Adrien Proust, nee Jeanne Weil, Proust's mother. ...

LEFT Marcel (right) and Robert Proust in childhood. 6 BELOW Aunt Amiot's house at Illiers. ...

7 ABOVE Marie de Benardaky, an original of Gilberte Swann. 8 TOP RIGHT Laure Hayman, an original of Odette de Crecy. 9 RIGHT Por ...

[0 TOP LEFT Charles Haas, an original of Swann, with Mme Straus, Albert Cave (a friend of Degas), and Emile Straus. II ABOVE Mme ...

13 ABO VE LEFT Comtesse Elisabeth Greffulhe, a model for the Princesse de Guermantes. 14 AB aVE RI GHT Comtesse Laure de-Chevign ...

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17 TOP LEFT Comte Gabriel de la Rochefoucauld, an original of Robert de Saint~Loup. 18 TOP RIGHT Portrait of Armand,Ducde Guiche ...

Chapter II DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN D URING the summer of 18 94, the period of his ascent to the heights of the Faub ...

MARCEL PROUST what she meant; for Albert Wolff, the art and theatre critic 01 Le Figaro--'a creature of no religion, no country, ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN '7' summer at Mme Lemaire's Tuesdays in the Rue Monceau, where Hahn's singing of his own so ...

MARCEL PROUST like the incident of the three trees near Balbec, or the spires on the horizon of the Meseglise Way. Proust's stay ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 173 be known, he was to admire intensely a decade later. 'Monsieur,' he wrote to Faure abou ...