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Proust: The Captive (unabridged)

Remembrance of Things Past Vol. 3

read by Neville Jason

Proust: The Captive (unabridged)

Proust: The Captive (unabridged)

Remembrance of Things Past Vol. 3

read by Neville Jason

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Marcel Proust: The Captive (Unabridged)
Work length19:52:20
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Chapter 1: Life with Albertine
Track length10:12
I rang for Francoise. I opened the Figaro.
Track length11:17
Among the reasons which led Mamma to write me a daily letter…
Track length10:55
It was certainly not, as I was well aware…
Track length9:39
It did not occur to me that the apathy that was indicated…
Track length7:50
Francoise came in to light the fire…
Track length12:05
The decline of day plunging me back by an act of memory…
Track length8:24
Of all the outdoor and indoor gowns that Mme. de Guermantes…
Track length6:38
If there was no affectation, no desire to fabricate…
Track length10:04
Mme. de Guermantes assured me that…
Track length7:11
'Good grate-ious, my dear Oriane,' replied Breaute…
Track length6:52
As I endeavoured as far as possible to leave the Duchess…
Track length10:39
We may be certain that Morel, relying on the influence…
Track length10:44
The reader may remember that Morel had once told the Baron…
Track length10:20
I shall set apart from the other days on which I lingered…
Track length9:19
As I listened to Albertine's footsteps…
Track length7:03
At once my suspicion revived…
Track length7:09
Albertine took a far keener interest…
Track length7:56
Distressing as the change may have been to us…
Track length8:52
Between the two Balbec scenes…
Track length11:11
It is I suppose comprehensible that the letters…
Track length10:12
Sometimes I put out the light before she came in.
Track length9:45
Before Albertine obeyed and allowed me to take off her shoes…
Track length10:30
Life has in fact suddenly acquired, in his eyes…
Track length9:32
How many persons, cities, roads does not jealousy make us…
Track length10:33
Often, in the case of these furtive or sidelong glances…
Track length9:49
Generally speaking, love has not as its object a human body…
Track length9:40
When, of her own accord, she swears to us…
Track length9:50
Albertine went to take off her things…
Track length10:16
What is remarkable is that, a few days before this dispute…
Track length9:30
I was now at liberty to go out with Albertine…
Track length11:17
I really believe that I came near that day…
Track length11:31
But there were certain evenings also…
Track length8:29
On the morrow of that evening when Albertine had told me…
Track length9:40
Francoise brought in the Figaro.
Track length10:13
And often an extra hour of sleep is a paralytic stroke…
Track length8:57
In these various forms of sleep, as likewise in music…
Track length9:36
Perhaps the future was not destined to be the same…
Track length7:22
In any event, I was very glad that Andree was to accompany…
Track length10:01
As I do not believe that jealousy can revive a dead love…
Track length12:41
Of a laundry girl, on a Sunday…
Track length10:23
Between the shopgirl, the laundress busy with her iron…
Track length11:06
Of course, I was still at the first stage of enlightenment…
Track length10:26
Certainly at such moments she was not at all the same…
Track length11:51
I urged Francoise, when she had got Albertine out of the hall…
Track length9:43
The frocks that I had bought for her…
Track length9:08
But notwithstanding the richness of these works…
Track length6:56
For some reason or other the course of my musings…
Track length7:07
Gradually my agitation subsided.
Track length10:53
As one does on the eve of a premature death…
Track length7:39
The disappointment that I had felt with the women…
Track length11:39
At our feet, our parallel shadows, where they approached…
Track length10:30
I did not question Gisele.
Track length9:41
Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent…
Track length10:30
He consulted doctors who, flattered at being called…
Track length7:14
He repeated to himself…
Track length8:18
The evidence of the senses is also an operation…
Track length7:54
Chapter 2
Track length10:28
Notwithstanding the change in Morel's point of view…
Track length10:54
From this point of view, if one is not 'somebody'…
Track length9:41
But if the drawing-room seemed to him superior…
Track length11:03
Making a pretence of not seeing the seedy individual…
Track length11:28
'Have you seen him lately?' I asked M. de Charlus…
Track length8:15
M. de Charlus had never in his life been anything but…
Track length8:52
As for young men in general, M. de Charlus found…
Track length8:47
M. de Charlus, who had long been acquainted with Bergotte…
Track length11:08
Just as we were about to ring the bell…
Track length10:00
Meanwhile Mme. Verdurin was busily engaged with Cottard…
Track length10:34
These exclusions were not always founded upon…
Track length9:57
Nobody will accuse the Dreyfus case…
Track length10:05
If Mme. Verdurin had not been genuinely unaffected…
Track length11:02
M. de Charlus took Morel aside…
Track length6:10
What ruined M. de Charlus that evening was the ill-breeding…
Track length9:35
Mme. Verdurin sat in a place apart…
Track length9:22
But very soon, the triumphant motive of the bells…
Track length8:28
Vinteuil had been dead for many years…
Track length8:00
The lost country composers do not actually remember…
Track length10:11
This question seemed to me all the more important…
Track length8:57
Anyhow, the apparent contrast, that profound union…
Track length10:22
Nor indeed was M. de Charlus content with leaving…
Track length7:06
She intended, on the morning after the party…
Track length7:24
The remainder of M. de Charlus's guests…
Track length10:16
In calling her 'the Mole' (as for that matter…)
Track length10:02
'I intended to send you a note to-morrow by a messenger…'
Track length10:51
This said, he did not hesitate to commit it…
Track length9:28
'Come with us all the same,' said the Baron…
Track length7:30
I expressed to M. de Charlus my regret…
Track length11:01
'Forgive me if I return to the subject,' I said quickly…
Track length7:14
'You wish to meet Mlle Vinteuil,' said Brichot…
Track length7:51
So it is that we see men of the world…
Track length10:10
All of a sudden Brichot, who was still suffering…
Track length9:56
I could see that M. de Charlus was about to tell us…
Track length10:30
As cowardly still as I had been long ago…
Track length8:40
But we have looked too far ahead…
Track length9:53
Mme. Verdurin was overwhelmed with the joy of an old mistress…
Track length12:21
While M. de Charlus, rendered speechless by Morel's words…
Track length7:43
Extremes, however, meet, since the noble man…
Track length7:27
To turn back to the Verdurin's party…
Track length8:51
Chapter 3
Track length9:39
We had now reached my door.
Track length9:44
But I was preoccupied with the thought of Mlle Vinteuil…
Track length9:27
I did not know what to say, not wishing to appear astonished…
Track length8:52
Once again I had to be careful not to keep…
Track length10:25
'My little Albertine,' I said to her in a gentle voice…
Track length8:18
But the situation was entirely different for several reasons…
Track length7:14
If I analyse my feelings by this hypothesis…
Track length7:18
My serfdom, of which I had already been conscious…
Track length9:34
Tonight I thought that, among the other reasons…
Track length8:09
I had tears in my eyes…
Track length9:02
I should have been wrong in being delighted…
Track length5:11
It was so late that, in the morning, I warned Francoise…
Track length11:18
Albertine no more said to me after this midnight scene…
Track length9:42
If Albertine's object was to restore my peace of mind…
Track length9:22
'We shall have to begin to think soon…'
Track length6:17
I was so far convinced that it was absurd…
Track length9:51
Vinteuil's phrases made me think of the 'little phrase'…
Track length9:39
But I can at least assume that Baudelaire is not sincere.
Track length6:25
It was not, however, his music alone that Albertine played me…
Track length9:46
She spoke to me also of the excursions that she had made…
Track length8:37
Meanwhile winter was at an end…
Track length9:32
The first, the consoling feature was that habit…
Track length12:39
In the course of the day, Francoise had let fall in my hearing…
Track length10:28
This presentiment which she seemed to be expressing…
Track length11:01
That day and the next we went out together…
Track length9:17
We stopped at a big pastrycook's…
Track length8:23
We returned home very late one evening…
Track length6:30
But all of a sudden the scene changed…
Track length8:25
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