Part 1 COMBRAY
(Enright paging; yours may differ)
Week 1Awakenings (1). Bedrooms of the past, at Combray (4), at Tansonville (6), at Balbec (8; cf. II 333). Habit (8). Bedtime at Combray (cf. 57). The magic lantern; Geneviève de Brabant (9).
Week 2
Family evenings (11). The little closet smelling of orris-root (14; cf. 222). The good-night kiss (15; cf. 29, 35-58). Visits from Swann (16); his father (17); his unsuspected social life (18). “Our social personality is a creation of other people’s thoughts” (23).
Week 3
Mme de Villeparisis’s house in Paris; “the tailor and his daughter” (25). Aunts Céline and Flora (27). Françoise’s code (38). Swann and I (40; cf. 419). My upbringing: “principles” of my grandmother (cf. 12, 13) and my mother; arbitrary behavior of my father (48).
Week 4
My grandmother’s presents; her ideas about books {i.e., “My dear,” she had said to Mamma, “I could not allow myself to give the child anything that was not well written.”} (52). A reading of Georges Sand (55). Resurrection of Combray through involuntary memory. The madeleine dipped in a cup of tea (60).
