I protested that, in that case, he must not dream of it. This summary end to the discussion did not seem to be to his liking. "That sort of politeness means nothing," he rebuked me coldly. "There is nothing so pleasant as to give oneself trouble for a person who is worth one's ...
Marcel Proust (born July 10, 1871, Auteuil, near Paris, France—died November 18, 1922, Paris) was a French novelist, author of À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27; In Search of Lost Time), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life told psychologically and allegorically. Life...
As Bergotte lived in the same neighbourhood as my parents, we left the house together; in the carriage he spoke to me of my health. "Our friends were telling me that you had been ill. I am very sorry. And yet, after all, I am not too sorry, because I can see quite well that ...
Baron de Charlus, fictional character, a licentious gay man in the seven-volume novel Remembrance of Things Past (1913–27; also translated as In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust. The baron, the nephew of Mme de Villeparisis and a member of the influential Guermantes family, is first...
she asked Swann, "doesn't he just understand it, his sonata, the little wretch? You never dreamed, did you, that a piano could be made to express all that? Upon my word, there's everything in it except the piano! I'm caught out every time I hear it; I think I'm listening to...
Marcel Proust (born July 10, 1871, Auteuil, near Paris, France—died November 18, 1922, Paris) was a French novelist, author of À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27; In Search of Lost Time), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life told psychologically and allegorically. Life...
During the ninth conference, held in Paris in 1894, Proust gave a summary of the outcome of previous international sanitary conferences since 1851, and insisted on the need not only for sanitary surveillance of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf but also for adequate precautions to be applied to...