One Year In Search of Lost Time ~ 2015 discussion

Each quote is found at the end of a paragraph. These quotes are from the Penguin edition (this volume is translated by Carol Clark). I don’t have the MKE translation of this volume so when I had the option I tried to choose quotes that included a proper noun. After each quote I cite the approximate page percentage of the line. The percentage is of the text ISoLT only, excluding introductions and prefaces, end notes and summaries. NB: This is only the text of The Prisoner.

September 5
"My hand, too, was raised and lowered, like the pearls, by Albertine's breathing: my whole body was gently rocked by its regular movement. I had set sail on Albertine's sleep" (15.58%).

September 12
"I was delighted that Albertine should be going to the 'special' matinée at the Trocadéro, but above all reassured that she was going there in company, the company of Andrée" (31.17%).

September 19
"I replied that I was looking forward to seeing the salon where Swann used once to meet Odette every evening. 'What, do you know those old stories?' he said" (46.75%).

September 26
"And he added, in Mme de Villeparisis's Guermantes voice, 'He's a fine land, a good type, I often use him at home.' But his cleverness often misfired, for people were astonished by his intimately friendly manner and the pneumatiques he sent to footmen. The footmen themselves were not so much flattered as embarrassed by what their friends would say" (61.82%)

October 3
"M. de Charlus soon began to slide down the slippery slope again, and with ever-increasing speed, as we shall see. But the Verdurins' attitude to him was to remain a distant memory, which later, more immediate resentments pushed into the background" (77.92%).

October 10
"You would have said that her lovely head, as she slept, was full of nothing but gaiety, tenderness and laughter. And waking her had been simply like opening a ripe fruit, sending the thirst-quenching juice spurting into one's mouth" (93.5%).

Next week is a very short section - around half our normal length.

October 17
End of The Prisoner