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1.14.2010

Swann's Way (vol I): Swann in Love; Pages for January 2010

1  SWANN’S WAY:   Part 2  SWANN IN LOVE
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We're starting part 2 of Swann's Way, Swann in Love.  This is set further back in time, a second-hand re-telling by the Narrator of what someone told him about Swann's life. Think about who might have known this story well enough to pass it on. Note: If you want to read in French, try it here.

The Verdurins and their “little clan.”  The “faithful” (265).  Odette mentions Swann to the Verdurins (269). Swann and women (269). Swann’s first meeting with Odette: she is “not his type” (276). How he comes to fall in love with her (277).   (Note: Jeremy Irons is a lovely Swann!)  chrysanthemums ; Dr. Cottard (281). The sonata in F sharp (290). The Beauvais settee (292). The little phrase (294). The Vinteuil of the sonata and the Vinteuil of Combray (302).  Mme Verdurin finds Swann charming at first (303). But his “powerful friendships” make a bad impression on her (307). The little seamstress; Swann agrees to meet Odette only after dinner (307). Vinteuil’s little phrase, “the national anthem of their love” (308). Tea with Odette; her chrysanthemums (311). Faces of today and portraits of the past: Odette and Botticelli’s Zipporah (314).  

 

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