Marcel Proust: A Biography

82 MARCEL PROUST costumes which he now saw for the first time and the talent of his friends. He interrupted every line with unco ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY flattered and amused, but untouched by his love, and he ceased to love her. In May 1893, by which time he ...

MARCEL PROUST figure seemed to coil about her parasol like a snake round a rod, and whose reticule was carried by a little negro ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY my dear boy, keep absolutely calm, Jacques doesn't mean a word he's saying-just sip a glass of cold water ...

86 MARCEL PROUST ranch in rhe Andes; her farher, an engineer, died when she was still a child, and her morher, after trying in v ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY comparing the what-not on which she kept her Saxe figurines to an altar: "we live in the century of Laure ...

88 MARCEL PROUST with her favourite chrysanthemums and giving her lunch at the most expensive restaurants. Jacques Emile Blanche ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY The social ascent of Fromental Halevy's daughter and Bizet's widow had been extraordinary, almost impossi ...

MARCEL PROUST peeps benevolently through the curtains at Odette's guests.^1 There is, indeed, a distinct likeness between his ph ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY 9' angry husband to change them; but it was in no such circum- stances of cruelty and selfishness: Proust ...

MARCEL PROUST contributors for the ruthlessness of his proof-corrections, "pursuing hiatuses," said Anatole France, "into the ve ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY 93 of the Second Empire: we have a glimpse of him in December 1863, playing in private theatricals at the ...

904 MARCEL PROUST as a connoisseur. Once Saint-Maurice showed him a new acquisi- tion, a horrible, blackened Italian daub, and p ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY 95 detected elements in Swann, particularly his erudition in art, which belonged to Charles Ephrussi; tho ...

MARCEL PROUST and Taine, and with Taine she had quarrelled in 1887, after his series of hostile articles on her uncle, leaving o ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY 97 shake. If asked by some uninstructed, ultra-polite newcomer: "And how is your Imperial Highness's heal ...

MARCEL PROUST perhaps he didn't read Picuchet, but I'm quite sure he read Bouvard." After a visit to the country she spoke of "a ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY 99 ground, iike the pianist's aunt or Princesse Sherbatoff at Mme Verdurin's, and were known as 'my sacre ...

100 MARCEL PROUST graciously: "You may speak now, Monsieur Labiche." But the unhappy dramatist only mumbled: "I just wanted to a ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY 101 never see that her jokes were always against herself. "The Aubernon hag had no sense of the ridiculou ...