Author(s): Proust, Marcel
Reader(s): Jason, Neville
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0104
Barcode: 9781843796220
Release Date: 09/2012

PROUST, M.: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 5: Captive (The) (Unabridged)

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason’s widely praised 36-CD abridged version has rightly become an audiobook landmark and now, after numerous requests, he is recording the whole work unabridged which, when complete, will run for some 140 hours.

The Captive is the fifth of seven volumes. The Narrator’s obsessive love for Albertine makes her virtually a captive in his Paris apartment. He suspects she may be attracted to her own sex.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Proust, Marcel - Author
Jason, Neville (Reader)
1Chapter 1: Life with Albertine10:13
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2I rang for Francoise. I opened the Figaro.11:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Among the reasons which led Mamma to write me a daily letter…10:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4It was certainly not, as I was well aware…09:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5It did not occur to me that the apathy that was indicated…07:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Francoise came in to light the fire…12:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7The decline of day plunging me back by an act of memory…08:24
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Of all the outdoor and indoor gowns that Mme de Guermantes…06:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 2
1If there was no affectation, no desire to fabricate…10:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Mme de Guermantes assured me that…07:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3'Good grate-ious, my dear Oriane,' replied Breaute…06:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4As I endeavoured as far as possible to leave the Duchess…10:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5We may be certain that Morel, relying on the influence…10:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6The reader may remember that Morel had once told the Baron…10:20
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7I shall set apart from the other days on which I lingered…09:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8As I listened to Albertine's footsteps…07:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9At once my suspicion revived…07:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 3
1Albertine took a far keener interest…07:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Distressing as the change may have been to us…08:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Between the two Balbec scenes…11:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4It is I suppose comprehensible that the letters…10:12
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5Sometimes I put out the light before she came in.09:45
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Before Albertine obeyed and allowed me to take off her shoes…10:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7Life has in fact suddenly acquired, in his eyes…09:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8How many persons, cities, roads does not jealousy make us…10:36
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 4
1Often, in the case of these furtive or sidelong glances…09:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Generally speaking, love has not as its object a human body…09:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3When, of her own accord, she swears to us…09:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Albertine went to take off her things…10:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5What is remarkable is that, a few days before this dispute…09:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6I was now at liberty to go out with Albertine…11:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7I really believe that I came near that day…11:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 5
1But there were certain evenings also…08:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2On the morrow of that evening when Albertine had told me…09:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Francoise brought in the Figaro.10:13
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4And often an extra hour of sleep is a paralytic stroke…08:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5In these various forms of sleep, as likewise in music…09:36
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Perhaps the future was not destined to be the same…07:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7In any event, I was very glad that Andree was to accompany…10:01
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8As I do not believe that jealousy can revive a dead love…12:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 6
1Of a laundry girl, on a Sunday…10:24
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Between the shopgirl, the laundress busy with her iron…11:06
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Of course, I was still at the first stage of enlightenment…10:26
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Certainly at such moments she was not at all the same…11:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5I urged Francoise, when she had got Albertine out of the hall…09:43
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6The frocks that I had bought for her…09:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7But notwithstanding the richness of these works…06:56
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8For some reason or other the course of my musings…07:09
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 7
1Gradually my agitation subsided.10:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2As one does on the eve of a premature death…07:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3The disappointment that I had felt with the women…11:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4At our feet, our parallel shadows, where they approached…10:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5I did not question Gisele.09:41
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent…10:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7He consulted doctors who, flattered at being called…07:14
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8He repeated to himself…08:20
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 8
1The evidence of the senses is also an operation…07:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Chapter 210:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Notwithstanding the change in Morel's point of view…10:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4From this point of view, if one is not 'somebody'…09:41
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5But if the drawing-room seemed to him superior…11:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Making a pretence of not seeing the seedy individual…11:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7'Have you seen him lately?' I asked M. de Charlus…08:15
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8M. de Charlus had never in his life been anything but…08:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 9
1As for young men in general, M. de Charlus found…08:48
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2M. de Charlus, who had long been acquainted with Bergotte…11:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Just as we were about to ring the bell…10:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Meanwhile Mme Verdurin was busily engaged with Cottard…10:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5These exclusions were not always founded upon…09:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Nobody will accuse the Dreyfus case…10:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7If Mme Verdurin had not been genuinely unaffected…11:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8M. de Charlus took Morel aside…06:12
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 10
1What ruined M. de Charlus that evening was the ill-breeding…09:36
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Mme Verdurin sat in a place apart…09:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3But very soon, the triumphant motive of the bells…08:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Vinteuil had been dead for many years…08:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5The lost country composers do not actually remember…10:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6This question seemed to me all the more important…08:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7Anyhow, the apparent contrast, that profound union…10:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Nor indeed was M. de Charlus content with leaving…07:06
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9She intended, on the morning after the party…07:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 11
1The remainder of M. de Charlus's guests…10:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2In calling her 'the Mole' (as for that matter…)10:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3'I intended to send you a note to-morrow by a messenger…'10:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4This said, he did not hesitate to commit it…09:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'Come with us all the same,' said the Baron…07:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6I expressed to M. de Charlus my regret…11:01
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7'Forgive me if I return to the subject,' I said quickly…07:14
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8'You wish to meet Mlle Vinteuil,' said Brichot…07:53
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 12
1So it is that we see men of the world…10:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2All of a sudden Brichot, who was still suffering…09:56
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3I could see that M. de Charlus was about to tell us…10:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4As cowardly still as I had been long ago…08:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5But we have looked too far ahead…09:53
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Mme Verdurin was overwhelmed with the joy of an old mistress…12:21
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7While M. de Charlus, rendered speechless by Morel's words…07:43
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Extremes, however, meet, since the noble man…07:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 13
1To turn back to the Verdurin's party…08:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Chapter 309:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3We had now reached my door.09:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4But I was preoccupied with the thought of Mlle Vinteuil…09:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5I did not know what to say, not wishing to appear astonished…08:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Once again I had to be careful not to keep…10:25
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7'My little Albertine,' I said to her in a gentle voice…08:18
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8But the situation was entirely different for several reasons…07:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 14
1If I analyse my feelings by this hypothesis…07:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2My serfdom, of which I had already been conscious…09:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Tonight I thought that, among the other reasons…08:09
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4I had tears in my eyes…09:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5I should have been wrong in being delighted…05:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6It was so late that, in the morning, I warned Francoise…11:18
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7Albertine no more said to me after this midnight scene…09:42
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8If Albertine's object was to restore my peace of mind…09:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9'We shall have to begin to think soon…'06:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 15
1I was so far convinced that it was absurd…09:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Vinteuil's phrases made me think of the 'little phrase'…09:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3But I can at least assume that Baudelaire is not sincere.06:25
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4It was not, however, his music alone that Albertine played me…09:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5She spoke to me also of the excursions that she had made…08:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Meanwhile winter was at an end…09:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7The first, the consoling feature was that habit…12:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8In the course of the day, Francoise had let fall in my hearing…10:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 16
1This presentiment which she seemed to be expressing…11:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2That day and the next we went out together…09:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3We stopped at a big pastrycook's…08:23
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4We returned home very late one evening…06:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5But all of a sudden the scene changed…08:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 19:53:12