Marcel Proust: A Biography

MARCEL PROUST the romanesque doorway and a portion of wall from the older church, and has no Merovingian crypt, no golden cross ...

THE GARDEN OF ILLIERS "3 mass, the first avatar of the Duchesse. Even the presence of Gilbert the Bad is not far to seek. The ar ...

2.4 MARCEL PROUST carrying their trowels and fishing-lines, Marcel and Robert passed on their right one of the two ruined towers ...

THE GARDEN OF ILLIERS and associated in the novel with Legrandin. There is a tradition at Illiers that in the days when this bri ...

MARCEL PROUST the Rue des Vierges with lawns, gravel paths, dwarf palms, geranium-beds and an ornamental water, not a lake as in ...

THE GARDEN OF ILLIERS 27 hawthorns of the raidillon to the left, meadows could be seen wbich were visible from nowhere else; and ...

(^28) MARCEL PROUST bird tied to a pole, leads to the right towards the Rue du Saint- Esprit.^1 But the parents and the blissful ...

Chapter 3 THE TWO WAYS T o the child Marcel the two favourite walks of the family seemed to be in diametrically opposite directi ...

30 MARCEL PROUST Along the right-hand grass verge of the road, past a pre- historic standing-stone, is an endless line of apple- ...

THE TWO WAYS repeated, this time in the centripetal form which it takes in his novel, by the spires of Caen; but then, as we sha ...

MARCEL PROUST Mile Vinteuil. This complex of topography and persons befits the complex of forbidden love which it embodies; for ...

THE TWO WAYS 33 J oinville d' Artois. She lived in a lonely house and was a subject for scandal: for the other qualities of Mile ...

MARCEL PROUST At Saint-Eman is the chateau of the Goussencourts, with its towers in the shape which the French call pepper-pots. ...

THE TWO WAYS 3S only to mask immaterial truth, is still able to reveal it: for to the child's eye object and symbol are one and ...

MARCEL PROUST Saint-Andre has been variously identified as Notre-Dame-de- Champde at Chateaudun, or Saint-Loup-de-Naud, or a lit ...

THE TWO WAYS 37 gardening, early-rising uncle' had lapsed; and it is one of Aunt Leonie's most terrible nightmares that 'her poo ...

MARCEL PROUST minor reputation and merit and an intimate friend of Mallarme and Francis Jammes; and he was noted for social clim ...

THE TWO WAYS 39 Thierry'. In the Pre Catelan, where in previous years he had lain in the hazel-copse by the asparagus-bed readin ...

Chapter 4 THE GARDEN OF THE CHAMPS-EL YSEES M ARCEL'S face was changing: it moved indeed in several directions and on several pl ...

THE GARDEN OF THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES 41 and the toy riding-cane on his lap, with exquisite poetic intelli- gence in his face, as if ...