Marcel Proust: A Biography

122 MARCEL PROUST The three young men walked in the T uileries gardens in the warm air of a new spring, or late at night endless ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 123 Lavallee. But in the spring, when 'the return of gentle sunlit days' gave him 'the exact illusion, t ...

MARCEL PROUST was Willie! 'Their elegance, like yours,' Proust wrote later, 'lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodie ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN comparatively recent ducal branch, whose title dated only from 1815, but now consisted mostly of innumer ...

126 MARCEL PROUST and became an ailing, frightened little boy, bullied by his father, schoolfellows and Jesuit teachers. In 1871 ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 127 tations of the count's favourite flower, the hortensia, 'in every possible material and every concei ...

128 MARCEL PROUST At such times he was capable of economy: he and Y turri might be seen devouring the cheapest lunch at the humb ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 129 rassed an unfortunate maiden whose dress was garnished with imitation cherries: "I had no idea young ...

130 MARCEL PROUST is a Basque word meaning a spring of fresh water, and the particle was added at Montesquiou's suggestion. Ytur ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 131 he was, though of lesser calibre than the Baron de Charlus, an eccentric in his own right, and by fa ...

J3~ MARCEL PROUST Emile Blanche, a post-impressionist of enduring charm and originality, except for an unfortunate period during ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN ')) irrevocably lost touch. If he had used his real sensibility and intelligence to remain true to himse ...

134 MARCEL PROUST There were many reasons for Proust's flattery of the pathetic count. One was amiable: Proust longed to be like ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 13S mental wigging on which the quarrel between Charlus and the Narrator in Le Cotl de Guermantes is bas ...

136 MARCEL PROUST two couples had not met. Proust and La Salle ascended the Righi by funicular and the Alp Grfun on foot, seeing ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 137 diploma (in fact he took it on 10 October 1893, a week after Willy Heath's death); and the holiday a ...

138 MARCEL PROUST not dissatisfied with this first step tOwaIds family acquiescence in his literary career. As he told his fathe ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN '39 his story from the heroine's point of view; but this well-worn device, used by so many heterosexual ...

140 MARCEL PROUST ful interest in Lesbianism was likewise founded on real ex- perience.^1 It was perhaps in the winter of 1893-9 ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN newly elected members which was a feature of the senior institu- tion was replaced by a silent series of ...