Marcel Proust: A Biography

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Chapter 1 THE GARDEN OF AUTEUIL T HE doorway of the house where Louis Proust was born, in the Rue du Cheval Blanc at Illiers, is ...

MARCEL PROUST and the conquest of disease and the exploration of the mind already seemed possible. Among Adrien Proust's near co ...

THE GARDEN OF AUTEUIL 3 Empress Eugenie, and on 3 September, the day before the fall of the Second Empire, he married Jeanne Wei ...

4 MARCEL PROUST move more than a few hundred yards from this point, and when nearly fifty years later their son Marcel was at la ...

THE GARDEN OF AUTEUIL the ground floor was the tailor's shop ofM. Eppler; next door was another, that of Sandt and Laborde (it w ...

6 MARCEL PROUST arm protectively round his brother's neck; and Robert, in a frilly white skirt, nestles against Marcel with a se ...

THE GARDEN OF AUTEUIL 7 in the drawing-room, she ·asked him to show them his 'books about the moon'. Marcel returned and proudly ...

10 MARCEL PROUST liqueurs under the trees. He could not sleep; in vain he begged their man-servant to fetch his mother; till at ...

THE GARDEN OF AUTEUIL II shows that the Franfois le Champi incident occurred at Auteuil^1 ; and the more important event of his ...

MARCEL PROUST unconscious purpose of regaining his mother's love, and of punishing her at the same time for withholding it, that ...

Chapter 2 THE GARDEN OF ILLIERS M ARCEL'S grandfather at Illiers had died long ago, on ::t October 1855, when the future Dr Prou ...

'4 MARCEL PROUST Good Friday; and when they left the great cathedral on its grey plateau they travelled south-west for fifteen m ...

THE GARDEN OF ILLIERS window had three sets of impracticahle curtains, which it was impossible to draw all at once. The whole ro ...

16 MARCEL PROUST well-considered disapproval in her gentle eyes would send her husband into a rage; he would beg her ironically ...

THE GARDEN OF ILLIERS 17 perfectly well, and only needed 'a brisk walk in the sunshine or a good red beefsteak', or distressed h ...

18 MARCEL PROUST Elisabeth, and never forgot that coffee and hot-water bottles should always be 'not just hot, but boiling'. "It ...

THE GARDEN OF ILLIERS Swann, at this time in the evening; and for Marcel 'the drama of going to bed' and the anxious ceremony of ...

MARCEL PROUST she had no time to go as far as Mme Damoiseau's in the Rue de la Place. In the hot summer afternoons, when Marcel ...

THE GARDEN OF ILLIERS ~I Damoiseau, the 'epicerie Borange' of Combray, which was also the telephone-exchange and the only booksh ...