Marcel Proust: A Biography

'74 MARCEL PROUST not only his opinion of the true nature of Ruskin's gospel but, what is still more important, describes the cr ...

SAL VA TION THROUGH RUSKIN ~75 his competence in English: 'I'm so bad at languages; he wrote to Marie Nordlinger in August 1903; ...

MARCEL PROUST in the general accuracy of his renderings he was largely indebted to Mme Proust, and that the occasional gross but ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN "77 in the original most of Ruskin's major works during his first enthusiasm in 1899 and 1900, and the ...

MARCEL PROUST Wasted. The meditation by the lake, which was a real event of September r899, began, as has been seen, with a comp ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN >'79 with my friends.' Truth and happiness, he felt for a time, could be discovered by seeing the ri ...

280 MARCEL PROUST and simpler, from which all obstacles and separations seemed to have been removed.'l 'The universe suddenly re ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 281 things by naming them, it was by taking away their names, or giving them different ones, that Elsti ...

MARCEL PROUST At the end of John Ruskin Proust applied to Ruskin words which Ruskin had used of Turner: 'It is through those eye ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 283 With wonder increasing every moment, I saw that they "com- posed" themselves, by finer laws than an ...

MARCEL PROUST so quietly as to be inaudible, conversation was difficult. The family thought he had shown far too little zeal a f ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN ~85 -the canal on whose yielding waters he seems 'to penetrate further and further into the depths of s ...

MARCEL PROUST through the outskirts of the aristocratic Quartier Monceau, a much more suitable district for a distinguished doct ...

SALVATION THROUGH RUSKIN 287 for whose father in the 18)os she had written her memoirs (just as Mme de Villeparisis's sister Mme ...

Chapter z5 SAINT-LOUP A T 45 Rue de Courcelles Mme Proust continued to allow her son to give 'grand dinners'; and one of the gra ...

SAINT-LOUP might give undivided attention to his friends, to dine before their arrival; he sat with one guest during the soup-co ...

:>9" MARCEL PROUST your last book-have you finished that marvellous play yet, Monsieur?--excuse me, Madame, what is the exact ...

SAINT-LOUP 291 Unfortunately, less owing to any personal dislike than to their consciousness of the utter incompatibility of the ...

MARCEL PROUST meet you"; to which the astonished Prince, fully aware that genius takes precedence of noble birth, had gamely rep ...

SAINT-LOUP Proust wrote to his mother. His excursions, however, had taken another trend; he was beginning to visit old churches ...