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Marcel Proust, WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE (Modern Library; based on earlier drafts written from 1907 to 1914).
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Proust, within a Budding Grove: Paris and Gilberte, 79 (from “When New Year’s Day came”) to the end of 121.
Proust: Seaside at Balbec, 325 (from “I found my grandmother”) to 387 (to “the coolness of her soft palpitation”
Proust: Albertine and Elstir, 502-82 (from “That day, as for some days past” to “the little band to whom I should be introduced by him.”)
Proust: Elstir and the band of girls, 582-640 (from “I paced up and down” to “pull a string or two if she’s to get through”)
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First Interpretation Exercise, English 361
IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF PROUST
Due Sunday, October 8, 2017.
DIRECTIONS: Read the passage shown below several times, then analyze its most striking or important
features. Topics might include, but are not limited to, Proust’s depiction of character, his psychological
themes, his narrative method or point of view, and/or his style, such as metaphors, images, sentence
rhythm, or other literary uses of language.
Do not try cover everything. Instead, focus on no more than three key topics that can be discussed in
some depth. Be sure to indicate connections to our readings so far in Unit II, either to Proust in general
or to parallels or contrasts in Musil. However, at least half of your discussion should refer in detail to
the passage itself.
LENGTH OF PAPER: three typed pages, or 1000 words. Use the line numbers given below rather than
direct quotations to refer to long passages. Specific words or phrases should be quoted. Send the paper,
no later than midnight on Sunday, as an e-mail attachment, to
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Shortly after this, one morning when it had been raining and was almost cold, I was accosted on the
front by a girl wearing a little toque and carrying a muff, so different from the girl whom I had met at
Elstir’s party that to recognize in her the same person seemed an operation beyond the power of the
human mind; mine was, however, successful in performing it, but after a moment’s surprise, which did
not, I think, escape Albertine’s notice. On the other hand, remembering the “well-bred” manners which
had so impressed me before, I now experienced a converse astonishment at her rude tone and manners
typical of the “little band.” Moreover, her temple had ceased to be the reassuring optical center of her face,
either because I was now on her other side, or because her toque hid it, or else because its inflammation
was not a constant thing.
“What weather!” she began. “Really the perpetual summer of Balbec is all stuff and nonsense. Don’t
you do anything here? We never see you playing golf, or dancing at the Casino. You don’t ride either. You
must be bored stiff. You don’t find it too deadly, idling about like a lizard? You must have plenty of time
on your hands. I can see you’re not like me; I simply adore all sports. You weren’t at the Sogne races? We
went in the ‘tram,’ and I can quite understand you wouldn’t see any fun in an old rattletrap like that. It
took us two whole hours! I could have gone there and back three times on my bike.”
I who had admired Saint-Loup when, in the most natural manner in the world, he had called the little
local train the “crawler,” because of the ceaseless windings of its line, was daunted by the glibness with
which Albertine spoke of it as the “tram” and the “rattletrap.” I could sense her mastery of a mode of
nomenclature in which I was afraid of her detecting and despising my inferiority. And the full wealth of
the synonyms that the little band possessed to designate this railway had not yet been revealed to me. In
speaking, Albertine kept her head motionless and her nostrils pinched, and scarcely moved her lips. The
result was a drawling, nasal sound, into which entered perhaps a provincial heredity, a juvenile affectation
of British phlegm, the teaching of a foreign governess and a congestive hypertrophy of the mucus of the
nose. This enunciation which, as it happened, soon disappeared when she knew people better, giving
place to a natural girlish tone, might have been thought unpleasant. But to me it was particularly delightful. When I had gone for several days without seeing her, I would refresh my spirit by repeating to myself:
“We don’t ever see you playing golf,” with the nasal intonation in which she uttered the words, point
blank, without moving a muscle of her face. And I thought then there was no one in the world so
desirable. (622-24)
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