In Search of Lost Time, Volume V_ The Captive, the Fugitive - Marcel Proust [406]
Beginnings of recovery (718). I grow accustomed to the idea of Albertine’s death (719–20). Intermittent revival of my love and my suffering (723 et sqq.). Andrée confesses her taste for women, but denies having had relations with Albertine (737). Renewal of desire for other women (745). The power of oblivion (751).
Mlle de Forcheville. Three stages on the road to indifference (754). A walk in the Bois on All Saints’ Day (754). The three girls (758). Some days later, one of them gives me a look which rouses my passion (759). I identify her with Mlle d’Eporcheville, whom Robert had met in a house of assignation (760; cf. IV 126). Robert, in reply to a cable from me, tells me it is the wrong girl (765). My article in the Figaro (766–72). Visit to the Guermantes’ (772). The blonde girl: Mlle de Forcheville (773–74), in other words Gilberte (775). Mme de Guermantes’s changed attitude towards Swann’s wife and daughter after his death (780); she entertains Gilberte and talks to her about her father (783). The Duke reads my article (788). Gilberte’s snobbery (790). Two congratulatory letters (797). Gilberte helps to bury the memory of her father (800) and hastens the process of forgetting in me as regards Albertine (801). A new social self replaces the one that loved Albertine (803).
Second stage on the road towards indifference: second conversation with Andrée (806); her relations with Albertine (810); Albertine and Morel (810); the evening of the syringa (812; cf. 64). Andrée’s different natures (815); her engagement to the Verdurins’ nephew, “I’m a wash-out” (817), an artist of genius underneath his crude and frivolous exterior (818). The Princesse de Parme’s visit to my mother (828). Third visit from Andrée (830); a new explanation for Albertine’s departure (830). Albertine and “I’m a wash-out” (832). His attitude towards me (840).
Sojourn in Venice. Third stage towards indifference (844). Venice and Combray (844). Mme de Villeparisis and M. de Norpois, greatly aged (854–66). A telegram from Albertine telling me she is alive; it gives me no joy (869). The self that loved Albertine is dead (870). My outings in Venice, alone or with my mother (875). The Giotto chapel at Padua (878). Evening walks in Venice (881).
I ask my mother to postpone our departure (883); she refuses, and I decide to stay (884). Solitude, misery, O sole mio (884). The train (888). A letter from Gilberte announcing her engagement to Robert de Saint-Loup (889); the recent telegram was from her (889).
New Aspect of Saint-Loup. My mother tells me of another marriage, that of the Cambremers’ son and Mlle d’Oloron, Jupien’s niece (893). My mother’s reflexions on the news, and thoughts of my grandmother (893). Ups and downs of Saint-Loup’s engagement plans (898). Disapproval from Combray (899). Reactions of society people (902). Opposite effects of the same vice in Charlus and Legrandin (904). Roles of the Princesse de Parme, Charlus and Legrandin in Mlle d’Oloron’s marriage (904). Change in Legrandin (906). Gilberte, at first happy in her new social position (908), becomes indifferent to it (909). Mlle d’Oloron’s death (913). The Muse of History (919).
A visit to Tansonville (921). Saint-Loup’s infidelity; his relations with Morel (922–23). Retrospective analysis of Robert’s sexual tastes (924–30). Robert and Mme de Forcheville (930–31). My tarnished friendship (936).
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