Du côté de chez Swann -
A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs -
Le côté de Guermantes
Sodome et Gomorrhe -
La prisonnière -
Albertine disparue -
Le temps retrouvé
I - SWANN'S WAY
OVERTURE0001 For a long time I used to go to bed early 0002 Sometimes, too, just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam 0003 These shifting and confused gusts of memory 0004 At Combray, as every afternoon ended, long before the time 0005 But after dinner, alas, I was soon obliged to leave Mamma 0006 My sole consolation when I went upstairs for the night 0007 For many years, albeit — and especially before his marriage 0008 One day when he had come to see us after dinner 0009 But the only one of us in whom the prospect of Swann’s 0010 I never took my eyes off my mother 0011 As for the agony through which I had just passed 0012 I could hear my parents’ footsteps as they went with Swann 0013 Mamma spent that night in my room 0014 Mamma sat down by my bed 0015 And so it was that, for a long time afterwards COMBRAY0016 Combray at a distance, from a twenty-mile radius 0017 In the next room I could hear my aunt talking 0018 Françoise, who had been for many years in my aunt’s service 0019 While my aunt gossiped on in this way with Françoise 0020 On our way home from mass we would often meet M. Legrandin 0021 When, on our reaching the house 0022 At length my mother would say to me 0023 And so I no longer used to go into the little sitting-room 0024 Then while the kitchen-maid—who 0025 Sometimes I would be torn from my book 0026 Except on such days as these 0027 For the first few days, like a tune 0028 While I was reading in the garden 0029 In this way life went by for my aunt Léonie 0030 The day had yet another characteristic feature 0031 Although Saturday, by beginning an hour earlier 0032 One Sunday, when my aunt had received simultaneous visits 0033 Alas! we had definitely to alter our opinion of 0034 We used always to return from our walks 0035 When we had decided to go the ‘Méséglise way’ 0036 The absence of Mlle. Swann 0037 “Léonie,” said my grandfather on our return 0038 That year my family fixed the day of their return to Paris 0039 It was along the ‘Méséglise way,’ at Montjouvain 0040 Since the ‘Méséglise way’ 0041 And it is perhaps from another impression which I received 0042 If the ‘Méséglise way’ was so easy 0043 The great charm of the ‘Guermantes’ way 0044 But farther on the current slackened 0045 One day my mother said: “You are always talking about 0046 How often, after that day, in the course of my walks 0047 All day long, during these walks SWANN IN LOVE : 0048 And so I would often lie until morning 0049 To admit you to the little nucleus 0050 Now there was no connection whatsoever 0051 Occasionally a couple of my grandparents’ acquaintance 0052 But while each of these attachments, each of these 0053 Odette de Crécy came again to see Swann 0054 It so happened that my grandfather had 0055 In telling the Verdurins that Swann was extremely smart 0056 Meanwhile M. Verdurin, after first asking Swann’s 0057 After the pianist had played, Swann felt and shewed 0058 D’you know; we like your friend so very much 0059 But Swann said to himself that, if he could make Odette 0060 He would escort her to her gate, but no farther 0061 More important, perhaps, was a second visit which he paid 0062 It was not only Odette’s indifference 0063 But one evening, when, irritated by the thought 0064 Among all the methods by which love is brought into being 0065 The ice once broken, every evening, when he had taken her 0066 He went to her only in the evenings 0067 Except when he asked her for Vinteuil’s little phrase 0068 Feeling that, often, he could not give her in reality 0069 Like everything else that formed part of Odette’s 0070 He might have reminded himself, all the same 0071 Swann was still unconscious of the disgrace that threatened 0072 One day, when reflections of this order had brought him 0073 In the evening, when he did not stay at home until it was 0074 One evening, when Swann had consented to dine with the 0075 One day when Swann had gone out early in the afternoon 0076 When he proposed to take leave of Odette 0077 A month after the evening on which he had intercepted and 0078 In a word, the life which they led at the Verdurins 0079 And so that drawing-room which had brought Swann and 0080 On other occasions he had assured himself 0081 Although she would not allow him, as a rule, to meet her 0083 And yet he was inclined to suspect 0084 But at other times, grief would again take hold of him 0085 Now that, after this swing of the pendulum, Odette 0086 And so, by the chemical process of his malady 0087 Certainly, of the extent of this love Swann 0088 If he was obliged to make excuses to his fashionable 0089 My uncle advised Swann not to see Odette for some days 0090 Even when he could not discover where she had gone 0091 Since Odette never gave him any information 0092 It sometimes happened, again, that, when, after meeting 0093 These new manners, indifferent, listless, irritable 0094 But his so meticulous prudence was defeated 0095 He speedily recovered his sense of the general ugliness 0096 Swann had gone forward into the room, under pressure 0097 At this moment the Princesse des Laumes 0098 The pianist, who was ‘down’ to play two pieces by Chopin 0099 Meanwhile, the pianist having doubled his speed 0100 Swann was extremely fond of the Princesse des Laumes 0101 Swann now wished to go home 0102 Meanwhile the concert had begun again, and Swann 0103 From that evening, Swann understood that the feeling 0104 Sometimes he hoped that she would die, painlessly 0105 One day he received an anonymous letter 0106 One day, after the longest period of calm 0107 Swann had prepared himself for all possibilities 0108 “My darling,” he began again 0109 But she saw that his eyes remained fixed upon the things 0110 But, often enough, the things that he did not know 0111 Besides, her very admissions—when she made any—of faults 0112 On certain evenings she would suddenly resume towards him 0113 Sometimes he repaired to ‘gay’ houses 0114 The painter having been ill, Dr. Cottard 0115 In former times, having often thought with terror PLACE-NAMES: THE NAME : 0116 Among the rooms which used most commonly 0117 I should have liked to take, the very next day 0118 But if their names thus permanently absorbed 0119 Had my health definitely improved 0120 One day, as I was weary of our usual place 0121 Only, would she come again to the Champs-Elysées? 0122 The first of these days—to which the snow 0123 This day, which I had begun with so many misgivings 0124 But when I arrived at the Champs-Elysées 0125 Another time, being still obsessed by the desire 0126 But at that actual moment, I was not able to appreciate 0127 I dragged Françoise, on the way towards Gilberte 0128 On one of these sunny days which had not realised my hopes 0129 While I waited I read over again a page 0130 I had always, within reach, a plan of Paris 0131 As for Swann, in my attempts to resemble him 0132 On the days when Gilberte had warned me 0133 But most often of all, on days when I was not to see 0134 I assigned the first place, in the order of aesthetic 0135 That sense of the complexity of the Bois