The narrator, in the final pages of “Swann's Way”, published in 1913 📗 by @editionsgrasset…
Translated from French.
In the final pages of “Swann's Way”, published in 1913 📗 by @editionsgrasset, lamented the inexorable passage of time ⏳ whilst watching the ballet of demi-mondaines and gentlemen on the Champs-Élysées 🤵🏻♂️👰🏻♀️.
In “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” 🌸, published in 1919 by @editions_gallimard, the tone shifts from the second part of the volume onwards. The narrator has given up on Gilberte; he stops visiting Swann and Odette’s house and sets off for Balbec ⛱️ in the company of his dear grandmother.
As he looks back on his disappointing friendship with Gilberte, he gains a slightly better understanding of how memory works 🕰️, particularly involuntary memory:
🖋️ “That is why the best part of our memory lies outside ourselves, in a rain-laden breath 🌦️, in the musty smell of a bedroom 🛌 or in the scent of a first fire; wherever we rediscover within ourselves that which our intellect, having no use for it, had scorned—the last reserve of the past, the very best, the one which, when all our tears 💧 seem to have run dry, knows how to make us weep once more.” 😢
🗳️ Have you, too, ever experienced those fleeting sensations that suddenly open the door within us to a moment from the past?
#MarcelProust #ÀlombredesJeunesfillesenfleurs #proustagram #mémoireinvolontaire #RTP #Proust #GilberteSwann #Swann
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