The Guermantes Way

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The text of The Guermantes Way says that the visits paid by the Duke and Duchess to their kinsfolk replenished the stock of anecdotes. The Princesse d’Epinay asks whether someone had not heard Teaser Augustus. The text says that the saying would be served up again cold next day at luncheon before a few intimate friends who were invited on purpose.

A speaker says that in later years, at Venice, long after the sun had set, when it seemed to be quite dark, the speaker has seen the reflexion of the palaces unfurled, as though for all time, in a darker velvet, on the crepuscular greyness of the water. The text says one person reported that his carriage, thinking it had got to the Pont de la Concorde, had circled three times round the Invalides, and another that his carriage, in trying to make its way down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, had driven into a clump of trees at the Rond Point.

About the author

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time runs to something like a million and a quarter words across seven volumes, and Proust spent his last years in a cork-lined bedroom, asthmatic and nocturnal, expanding proofs until the printers despaired.