Marcel Proust: A Biography

174 MARCEL PROUST tion was captured by the chief theme of the first movement, a mediocre but haunting melody whose only musical ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 175 Meanwhile the preparation of Les Plaisirs et les Jours was advancing rapidly. The long ...

176 MARCEL PROUST belonged to the kin of Doasan and his Polish violinist, of Montesquiou and Delafosse, Wilde and Lord Alfred. H ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 177 detection in his own home, the event could not have occurred without leaving a permanen ...

MARCEL PROUST ably the Marquis de Poitiers, the pianist soldier in Jean Santeui[l; and as a letter of this summer to Pierre Lava ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 179 he had gazed at the Bengal roses of Reveillon. "They look like nymphs who've stabbed th ...

[80 MARCEL PROUST Certainly the duties of an honorary unpaid assistant would be unlikely to interfere with his writing: the work ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 181 sister Clarita, Mme Seminario, where he finished the revision of La Mort de Baldassare ...

182 MARCEL PROUST sister Maria in a flirtatious cadenza of marine epithets-'O my sister Maria, confidant of my inmost thoughts' ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 183 similarly, in Jean Santeuil, Jean is recommended to visit Beg-Meil by his mother's frie ...

MARCEL PROUST said, referring to its sand-dunes and sub-tropical climate, "and a storm there is the sublimest thing you could se ...

DESCENT INTO THE cn IES OF THE PLAIN 18\ name of M. Hanotaux, then Foreign Minister; and just in time for his second visit to Re ...

186 MARCEL PROUST from table Montesquiou made a beeline for Flament and asked: "Do you like poetry, and have you read miner" At ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 187 tion-'that astonishing windmill of words which was his only feat of creation' -that And ...

188 MARCEL PROUST pretended, when she visited him in the school parlour, that she was a family servant. Proust hid his face in h ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 189 Meanwhile, however, perhaps at first only by way of retalia- tion, Reynaldo himself was ...

190 MARCEL PROUST et les Jours: the whole book was now in the hands of Calmann Levy, with the exception of Anatole France's inte ...

DESCENT INTO THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN '9' talents', 'harmonious tonality', and 'pure, transparent language'- 'the new generation ...

Chapter l2 THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL T HE appearance of Les Plaisirs et les Jours was overshadowed in the Proust family b ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 193 to Great-Uncle Louis. Among the old man's relics he also dis- covered a collection of photo ...