Swann's Way
Combray
Awakenings

Combray

Swann in Love

Place-Names

I

Awakenings

Bedtime at Combray

Resurrection of Combray through involuntary memory

    II

Combray

Swann’s Way

The Guermantes Way

Awakenings

 

  •  Summary

    This section provides a brief synopsis of the last 260 pages and gives a sense of what is to be described next.

    Quotations

      “Thus would I often lie until morning, dreaming of the old days at Combray, of my melancholy and wakeful evenings there ... the memory of which had been more recently restored to me by the taste ... of a cup of tea, and, by association of memories, of a story which, many years after I had left the little place, had been told me of a love affair in which Swann had been involved before I was born...” [262]

    Comment

    the glue that binds...