![]() ![]() Even then he can't resist collapsing into Proustian digression: "To begin with, as my mouth began gradually to approach the cheeks which my eyes had tempted it to kiss, my eyes, in changing position saw a different pair of cheeks the throat, studied at closer range as though through a magnifying glass, showed a coarser grain and a robustness which modified the character of the face."Ī few lines later - during which the irresolute reader will be shouting "Kiss her! Just kiss her, damn you!" - the object of his affection changes again: "Just as at Balbec Albertine had often appeared different to me, so now. ![]() When Marcel kisses Albertine in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, it takes 15 pages and about an hour's reading before he finally makes his moue. It is a terrible thing to be imaginative. ![]() Jean-Yves Tadié, translated by Euan Cameron ![]()
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