Marcel Proust: A Biography

MARCEL PROUST vast freshness, as ifhe had become young again'.l The poems of the Vicomtesse de Reveillon, which are those of Ann ...

THE DREYFUS CASE explode'. And the superiority of this pleasure to all other pleasures he has known 'is perhaps the token of the ...

Chapter 14 SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN E XCEPT that it brought him joy unspoilt by suffering, Proust's passion for Ruskin took prec ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 2.57 Douglas Ainslie, an English friend of Robert de Billy, met Proust at the Daudets' in the Rue de Be ...

MARCEL PROUST took on a poetic aura hardly inferior to that of the golden Venice or Vezelay. On her way home to England Mlle Nor ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 2.59 minded places such as the Louvre or the Bibliotheque Nationale.' In that library he discovered a f ...

MARCEL PROUST be able to finish. But for the past fortnight he has been busy 'on a little work, quite different from the sort of ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 261 should be there or not, nor whether they deserve the sou-be sure only whether you yourself deserve ...

MARCEL PROUST the lion and the dragon, and the verse of Psalm lviii, 4, to which Ruskin refers: 'Inculcabis super leonem et aspi ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN .63 wrote nor spoke, and refused, like Aunt Leonie, to move, first from his house, at last even from hi ...

MARCEL PROUST he made a successful compromise between the obligatory 'Parisian gaiety' and his own manner, and struck a note whi ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN :.65 about cathedrals, it was in order to visit the cathedrals for what they could tell him about Ruski ...

MARCEL PROUST ugliest excrescence I ever saw on a gothic building!'l But the success of the day was the stone man regained, a ne ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN :>.67 Narrator's life by causing him to fall in love with Gilberte. A second obstacle, after many ye ...

MARCEL PROUST He had probably intended to go on to Venice from Evian next October (,Constantin de Brancovan assures me it's the ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 269 Their hotel was not two hundred yards from the Palace of the Doges, the Piazza, and the golden ange ...

'70 MARCEL PROUST cross the square with Marie to work on Ruskin in the 'dazzling coolness' of Saint Mark's. Mile Nordlinger reme ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 271 It was bad enough for a young man to get up so late in the morning (,She represented for me those M ...

MARCEL PROUST of cancer of the tongue in his father's medical books; M. de Palancy's monocle seemed to Swann at Mme de Saint-Euv ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 273 In Alhertine Disparue the Narrator refuses to leave Venice with his mother, in Comre Sainte-BeuviJ. ...