In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [312]
VOISENON (f). The Prince de Guermantes’s country seat: V 785.
Index of Themes
AEROPLANES. Freemasonry of aviation enthusiasts: III 548 (cf. V 132–33). M sees an aeroplane for the first time: IV 582 (cf. V 209–10). M and Albertine visit aerodromes: V 132–33. “One of those 120 horse-power machines—the Mystère model”: 209–10. An aeroplane high in the sky above Versailles—beauty of the sound of “that little insect throbbing up there”: 547–48. Albertine’s lie about a visit to an aerodrome with Andrée: 828. Flying angels in Giotto’s Padua frescoes reminiscent of airmen looping the loop: 878–79. Aeroplanes at evening over war-time Paris: VI 313. Saint-Loup’s opinion of aeroplanes in war: 82; his discussion with M about the beauty of war-planes at night: 98–100. Air raids: 161–62, 207–10.
ALCOHOL. M’s doctor prescribes alcohol for his suffocations, to the distress of his grandmother, who sees him “dying a drunkard’s death”: II 93. M’s drunken euphoria on the train to Balbec: 311–14. His sensations after drinking too much champagne and port at Rivebelle: 531–35. Charm that alcohol gives to the present moment; inebriation brings about for a while “a state of subjective idealism, pure phenomenalism”: 538–41 (cf. VI 314). Alcoholic slumbers: 544–47. M gets drunk in Aimé’s restaurant; different kinds of intoxication; he sees himself in a mirror: III 227. M drinks seven or eight glasses of port to overcome his diffidence with girls: IV 321–22. Effect of cider on Albertine: 562–63. At Rivebelle again; M’s solitary drinking; the pattern on the wall: 565.
AMERICANS. Swann’s liaison with an American: I 275. American lady and her daughter at Balbec: II 726. American lady whose only book is a copy of Parny’s poems: III 617. American multi-millionairess married to a French prince: 734. American lady bursts into M’s room at the Grand Hotel: IV 260. An American called Charles Crecy marries a niece of Mme de Guermantes: 661. American Jewesses in their night-dresses in Paris hotels during air-raids: VI 315. Charlus on the Americans during the war: 153. American hostesses: 242, 246. Bloch’s American friend in the new context of Parisian society: 396–403.
ANTI-SEMITISM. See Dreyfus Case; Jews.
APPLE-TREES. On the “Méséglise way”—their circular shadows on the sunlit ground: I 205. Seen from the road near Balbec: II 390. M’s night-long contemplation of a branch of apple blossom: 390–91 (cf. 582). Mme de Villeparisis’s painting of apple blossom: III 286–88. “Dazzling spectacle” of apple-trees in spring: IV 244–45. Compared to hawthorns: 250–51 (cf. 740).
AQUARIUM. M. de Palancy’s monocle a “symbolical fragment of the glass wall of his aquarium”: I 465 (cf. III 48). Berma in Phèdre like a branch of coral in an aquarium: II 185. Dining-room in the Grand Hotel, Balbec “an immense and wonderful aquarium” at night: 353 (cf. V 702–3). Garden of the Rivebelle restaurant like “an aquarium of gigantic size lit by a supernatural light”: 536. Subaqueous domain of the Princesse de Guermantes’s box at the Opéra: III 41–49. The lover separated from the outside world as though he were in an aquarium: 383. Charlus lives like a fish in an aquarium, unaware of his own visibility: IV 609–10.
ARABIAN NIGHTS. Swann’s secret life as mysterious as Ali Baba’s: I 21–22. Aunt Léonie’s Arabian Nights plates: 77, 96; II 660–61. Jews at Balbec suggest illustrations to the Arabian Nights: 435. Quoted apropos of a Paris restaurant proprietor: III 557. Oriane de Guermantes pictured as someone more wonderful than Princess Bedr-el-Budur: 613. M’s mother gives him both French translations, Galland and Mardrus: IV 318–19. M obliged to show the ingenuity of a Shéh