Marcel Proust: A Biography

42 MARCEL PROUST years to reach Class Five, in which he made his first appearance in the Condorcet roll of honour on 31 December ...

THE GARDEN OF THE CHAMPS-ELY SEES 43 threatened it. Marcel's parents, like Jean's, decided at last that his failures were due no ...

MARCEL PROUST Antoinette was at its height about eighteen months before the present period, and was a milder prefiguration of hi ...

THE GARDEN OF THE CHAMPS-EL YSEES 4! perhaps he was right; for although according to Gotha she was born at Pavlovsk on I2 July 1 ...

MARCEL PROUST In the happy fields of the Champs-Elysees, the third of the gardens of his childhood, Marcel held court among his ...

THE GARDEN OF THE CHAMPS-EL YSEES 47 returned. On rainy days he would stand by the window at home, gazing in despair at the stre ...

MARCEL PROUST symptoms of romantic love, which loves not a person but an ideal, a personified desire, a projection of one's self ...

THE GARDEN OF THE CHAMPS-EL YSEES 49 and the company she kept. There were to be at least two other ladies who contributed to the ...

so MARCEL PROUST beginning of middle age, he thought for a time of marrying one, but decided to write his novel instead. Almost ...

Chapter 5 BALBEC AND CONDORCET AN inventory of the contents and condition of the fourteen- .t1. year-old Marcel's mind, in the p ...

MARCEL PROUST Thierry at Illiers. His favourite poet is Alfred de Musset, whom Bloch tolerated only because he had written 'one ...

BALBEC AND CONDORCET muff which she had left behind, and shouting at the top of her voice: "Madame! Your Royal Highness has forg ...

54 MARCEL PROUST game of croquet in the hotel garden; but instead he sat down at the desk of Mile Biraben, the proprietress, to ...

BALBEC AND CONDORCET 15 in the horse-omnibus from Auteuil to the Madeleine. He felt he ought to make polite conversation, and th ...

MARCEL PROUST of your class, who can write French more clearly and correctly?"; only to receive the cutting and punning reply: " ...

BALBEC AND CONDORCET third prize for Latin and Greek. Was the other half of M. Cucheval's prophecy fulfilled, and did this succe ...

MARCEL PROUST step, and long skirts sweeping the grave1.l He tried to analyse her fascination, in which one may recognise the Fr ...

BALBEC AND CONDORCET 59 of ill fame performs a service which bears 'the same useful relation to love as that of handbooks on med ...

60 MARCEL PROUST a writer tries to startle, he is likely only to utter a cliche. He will only be profoundly original when he see ...

BALBEC AND CONDORCET 6r which HaIevy, aged fifteen, proclaimed himself the founder and leader. It died in March, at the thirteen ...