“The person that I shall be after death has no ore reason to
remember the man that I have been since my birth than this later remember what
I was before it” (375).
Pg 378 Poe’s Purloined Letter
“It was because M. de Charlus’ love was of an antisocial
kind, a more striking example of implementable yet mighty force of these
currents of passion in which the lover, like a swimmer being swept away unawares,
very soon loses sight of land” (382).
“Swann, before his death, might have known the answer, he
who had been a connoisseur of phatoms” (401).
“Fashionable people, when they are in love and whatever form
of that love, stake their vanity on what may destroy the advantages in which their
vanity previously have found satisfaction.” (446).
So he wants to marry Albertine because he doesn’t want other
people to have her or because he wants to protect her from lesbians?
He associated homosexuality with bad things, which
considering when the novel takes place would be a given in most people’s world
views. But there seems to be something
else at play here. He wants the toy
because other people want the toy. It
seems more than just fear of homosexuality.
And is Marcel in the novel and alternate Marcel Proust, a what if, an
alternate life.
It’s possession not love.
Everything seems to be possession not love.
Alexander, Patrick. Marcel
Proust’s Search for Lost Time: A Reader’s Guide to The Remembrance of
Things
Past. Vintage Books, 2007
Proust, Marcel. Sodom
and Gomorrah. Trans. John Sturrock. Penguin Books, 2004.
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