In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [323]
Insolent and coquettish laugh of the Princesse des Laumes: I 473–74, 477.
Odette’s little simpering laugh: I 311.
“Merry ángelus” of Ski’s laugh: V 384–85.
Mme Verdurin dislocates her jaw from laughing too much: I 266–67; symbolical dumb-show as a substitute for laughter: 289–90 (cf. IV 482).
M. Verdurin’s dumb-show of “shaking with laughter”: I 372–73, and his laugh like a smoker’s choking fit: V 385.
LETTERS. Note from M to his mother at Combray: I 37–39. Letters from Odette to Swann: 276, 314, 319. Swann’s letter of feigned disappointment and simulated anger to Odette: 319. Odette’s letter to Forcheville: 400–2. Anonymous letter to Swann about Odette’s infidelities: 506–7. Express letter (pneu) from M to Gilberte: 572–73. Norpois’s promptness in answering letters: II 11. M’s New Year letter to Gilberte: 80–81. M’s self-justifying letter to Swann: 86–87. Gilberte’s letter of invitation to M; her signature: 98–101; her writing-paper: 104–5. M’s letters to Gilberte during the crisis of his love: 219–23, 258–60. The pain of hostile letters from the beloved: 278. Correspondence between M and Gilberte concerning the imaginary “misunderstanding” between them: 285–87. Saint-Loup’s letter from Doncières: 611–12. Charlus’s violent letter to Mme de Villeparisis: III 263–64. Saint-Loup’s vituperative letter to M: 417. The footman’s letters, peppered with quotations from the poets: 437; example of these: 776–77. Saint-Loup writes to M from Morocco: 475: Note to M from Mme de Stermaria: 536. Letter to Charlus from the Princesse de Guermantes: IV 157 (cf. 732–33). M’s unemotional letter to Gilberte: 187. The charm of first letters from women: 322–23. Mme de Cambremer’s letter inviting M to dinner; the rule of the three adjectives: 468–69 (cf. 663–64). Charlus’s letter to Aimé: 530–33. Charlus’s letter to Morel announcing his imaginary duel: 631–35. Charlus’s letter from a club doorman: V 51. M’s mother writes to him, quoting Mme de Sévigné: 180. Albertine’s note to M after leaving the Trocadéro: 202–3. Letter from Lea to Morel intercepted by Charlus: 279–80. Albertine’s farewell letter: 565–66. Letter which M receives from a niece of Mme de Guermantes: 606. Letter from Albertine after Saint-Loup’s démarche; M’s reply: 610–15. “How little there is of a person in a letter”: 611–12. Albertine’s second letter and M’s reply: 630–33. M’s letter to Andrée: 632. Albertine’s posthumous letters: 643–44. Aimé’s letter from Balbec; his grammatical eccentricities: 694–96. Aimé’s letter from Touraine: 707–8. Letters congratulating M on his article in the Figaro: 797–99. Bourgeois conventionality in letters: 798–99. M receives a letter from his stockbroker: 866–88. Letters announcing marriages: 888–93. Letters from Gilberte at Tansonville during the war: VI 342. Saint-Loup’s letter from the front: 88–92. Charlus’s posthumous letter: 167–68.
LIFTS. Lift in the Grand Hotel, Balbec; M’s sensations on going up in it: II 331, 519. Professor E—’s lift and his mania for working it: III 430–31. Lift in M’s flat; sentence of solitary confinement represented by the sound of its not stopping at his floor: 478–79 (cf. V 703).
LITERATURE. Reflexions on reading; the art of the novelist: I 55–57, 114–20. Style and genius of Bergotte: 124–25, 129–38, II 165–75 (cf. III 443–47); the nature of originality in literature: 168–69; relation between speech and writing: 168–75; “unforeseeable beauty” of the work of great writers: 170; style of the writer and character of the man: 179–80. A good book is something special and unforeseeable: 318. Mme de Villeparisis’s literary judgments; her incomprehension of great writers: 394–95 (cf. III 247). Creation in a writer superior to observation: 476. Literature and fashionable society: III 246–52; literary talent the living product of a certain moral conformation that conflicts with purely social duties: 248. Vagaries of literary reputation; problems of appreciating new original writers; does art, after all, progress like science?:444–46. Depravity