During his first stay in Balbec ⛱️, the narrator meets the little group of young people…
Translated from French.
During his first stay in Balbec ⛱️, the narrator meets the little group of young girls in bloom 🌺. Can you name them?
Albertine, Andrée, Rosemonde, Gisèle… Other, anonymous figures are mentioned amongst their circle of acquaintances. But at first, the narrator cannot quite tell his friends apart… and his natural inclination is more towards Andrée or Gisèle, not really towards Albertine 👩🏻, ‘little Simonet’, although Gilberte 👩🏻🦰 had, in fact, already told him about at the start of the volume. 🕰️
Until, on a cliff near Balbec… ⛰️🌊
🖋️ “Sometimes a kind gesture from one person or another would stir deep emotions within me, temporarily dispelling my desire for others. One day, for instance, Albertine had said: ‘What’s in a pencil?’” Andrée had provided the pencil, Rosemonde the paper, and Albertine had told them: ‘My little ladies, I forbid you to look at what I’m writing.’ After taking care to trace each letter carefully, with the paper resting on her knees, she had passed it to me, saying: “Make sure nobody sees.” So I unfolded it and read the words she had written to me: “I’m quite fond of you.” 😳
And so, four pages later:
🖋️ “Meanwhile, I was thinking about the little scrap of notepad paper Albertine had slipped to me: ‘I rather like you’, and an hour later, as I walked down the paths leading back to Balbec – a little too steeply for my liking – I found myself thinking that it was with her that I would write my novel.” 📖❤️🔥
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