Marcel Proust: A Biography

[94 MARCEL PROUST her to corroborate his story if Montesquiou and Y turri, as they threatened, should call to ask her to relent; ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 195 anti-asthma cigarettes, fumigating with Legras powders, and drugging himself to sleep with ...

196 MARCEL PROUST Another episode in the career of the Vaugouberts is taken from the Montebellos. Mme de Vaugoubert ruins her hu ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 197 pocket-an accident which happened with such distressing regularity whenever he went on holi ...

MARCEL PROUST humouredly commenting: 'the story of a convict on his way to Devil's Island could hardly be more despairing'. The ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 199 VII, Chapter V (' Une Petite Ville de Province).1 The intro- ductory chapter (in which the ...

MARCEL PROUST evidence now available belong mostly to Part VIII and begin in August 1897, we may reasonably assume that the inte ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 201 Dieppe,l the possibility that Jean may become a poet-"you might as well give him a rope and ...

202 MARCEL PROUST and white hawthorn-chapels, the orris-roots in the lavatory, the magic-lantern with Golo and Genevieve de Brab ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL :>03 stay at Mme Lemaire's Reveillon with Reynaldo Hahn in August- September 1894. The story ...

104 MARCEL PROUST fortunately, the same who in 1889 had opposed and destroyed the nationalist and proto-fascist movement of Gene ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL :lOj military service at Orleans, and from visits to conscript friends, Risler at Chartres in 1 ...

20G MARCEL PROUST Henri's parents present a similar paradox. From the benevolent but rapacious Mme-Verdurin-like hospitality of ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 207 her added to the group of Reynaldo and his sisters which he used to call 'Apollo surrounded ...

208 MARCEL PROUST object ofLorrain's malice, however, which only made it the more galling, was not Proust himself but Montesquio ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 209 quarrel are obscure, for we are not compelled to believe the Count's explanation that Lorra ...

210 MARCEL PROUST to act on his behalf but to bring his great friend, Gustave de Borda, familiarly known as Sword-Thrust Borda. ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL :>II with nervous grimaces, sometimes known as the Paganini of the Peignoir.' On 4 May came ...

:11:>' MARCEL PROUST consolations of the Church. "It was one of the best fetes I've ever given," he exulted. Curiously enough ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL ~13 Sargent. After the First World War, however, he declined with the fall of the Guermantes wo ...