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]