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SWANN'S WAY
by
MARCEL PROUST
[Vol. 1 of REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST]
Translated from the French by
C. K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1922
CONTENTS
OVERTURE
COMBRAY
SWANN IN LOVE
PLACE-NAMES: THE NAME
OVERTURE
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out
my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say
"I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time
to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I
imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been
thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been
reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I
myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a
quartet, the rivalry between Francois I and Charles V. This impression
would persist for some moments after I was awake; it did not disturb my
mind, but it lay like scales upon my eyes and prevented them from
registering the fact that the candle was no longer burning.
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