Marcel Proust: A Biography

314 MARCEL PROUST In March Proust felt obliged to give a series of dinners of gratitude at 45 Rue de Courcelles, the first for C ...

Chapter /6 TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST B y the spring of 190 3 three more young noblemen had joined the little band of Saint-Loups. A ...

MARCEL PROUST can't call me "My dear Marcel", but you might at least put "My dear friend", which commits you to nothing, not eve ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST 317 implies preference, fidelity, security and perseverance'; most horrible of all, he once said of Ruski ...

318 MARCEL PROUST he was addressing her as Chere arnie, which before long became Ma petite Louisa. Next month she was on holiday ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST 3'9 exquisite just as it was'. So on II May Antoine had the pleasure of seeing himself in the morning's F ...

)20 MARCEL PROUST taking morphine."l Soon Proust was racked with misgivings: '1 see before me the dead, reproachful face of what ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST 3U of eight letters of pain and alarm there is audible the note of sentimental enjoyment which the French ...

3U MARCEL PROUST The Athenian maiden good-naturedly dismissed her partner to sit out with her utterly un-Greek friend; and as wa ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST 323 Larue's was now a broken habit, buried for ever in the past by the winter's absence of Antoine and Fe ...

MARCEL PROUST faith in a letter to Lauris. Over the ruins of the Church he saw Saint-Jacques at Illiers; the exiled priests took ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST theocracy.' He ended with a warning which history was to justify: 'at the present time the socialists com ...

)26 MARCEL PROUST himself choking with asthma and shivering with a high fever. He negotiated busily to prevent a duel between Ja ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST night-journey with his grandmother to Balbec. At eleven in the morning he arrived at Avallon and took a c ...

31.^8 MARCEL PROUST because it wouldn't be a monastery if everybody came!' But Proust was destined, though not yet, for a differ ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST 329 for which he was operated on by Dr Pozzi in September 1899), was wary: "My dear young friend," he sai ...

330 MARCEL PROUST though not without talent, on historical subjects, and produced newspaper articles on foreign affairs under th ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST 331 nucleus' and an unfaithful husband, was Dr Pozzi at Mme Aubernon's; his pince-nez and involuntary win ...

MARCEL PROUST diseases." He was renowned for the mysterious eccentricity of his prescriptions: for example, to an old lady in w ...

TIME BEGINS TO BE LOST 333 indulgent smile, an expression of approaching repose. Contrary to usual report, Marcel had only the s ...