Author(s): Proust, Marcel
Reader(s): Jason, Neville
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0101
Barcode: 9781843796169
Distribution Note(s):
Not available in the United States
Release Date: 11/2012

PROUST, M.: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 7: Time Regained (Unabridged)

Time Regained is the final volume. Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus. Later, at a reception given by the Prince de Guermates, his meditations on the passage of time lead to his determination to embark on his life’s work at last.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Proust, Marcel - Author
Jason, Neville (Reader)
1Time Regained: Chapter One04:47
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Robert came several times to Tansonville while I was there.05:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Françoise, who had already seen…05:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4One day when Robert was due to come to Tansonville…05:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5As for that love he kept talking to me about…04:13
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Once Robert had gone off again…05:26
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7It occurred to me that it was because Robert had…06:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8'The day before yesterday…'05:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9'You Westerners find that impossible to understand…'04:58
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10When I spoke to Verdurin of the subtle pleasure…05:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11'Yes, I give you my word…'04:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Hearing this, Doctor Cottard…03:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13I stopped there…05:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14The result of this was…04:29
Jason, Neville (Reader)
15Thus it was that the Goncourts' journal had revealed to me…04:47
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 2
1I had realised earlier that it is not the most witty…05:25
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Chapter Two04:26
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3'The sadness of the present moment, it is true…'05:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Saint-Euverte's salon had a faded image…06:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5M. Bontemps would not hear of peace…05:38
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Now Morel ought not to have been there…04:53
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7These words, which would have injured…06:42
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Before the time when the afternoon teas came to an end…05:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9The silhouettes of the trees were reflected sharply…04:58
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10'Have you heard,' he asked me as he left…06:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11Bloch left us at the door of his house…05:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Robert (who at the time seemed to me much more a Saint-Loup…)05:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13No doubt the boy was fed up with going up…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14One might have thought that I was the only person…06:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 3
1Whether the German staff officers had indeed behaved well…05:47
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2It was no good the general telling the man…04:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3'In a word, Gilberte now believed…'04:12
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4When Saint-Loup had come into my room…05:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5In certain respects the comparison was not a false one.06:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Later he was to say to me…07:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7While recalling Saint-Loup's visit…04:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8One might say that in his case…06:10
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9And thinking probably…05:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10Thus it was that when seeking to hurt the baron…06:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11However, even if M. de Charlus and Mme Verdurin…06:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12However, just as there are animals' bodies and human bodies…06:14
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13M. de Charlus went further…07:14
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 4
1For M. de Charlus, therefore…05:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2The war was going on for ever…06:35
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3'It's a strange thing too,' M. de Charlus added…05:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4The Duc de Guermantes' opinions had quickly changed.05:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5It's quite obvious that those peoples…04:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6And since M. de Charlus began to be extraordinarily childish…06:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7M. de Charlus was right about that.06:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8So it was that journalism…04:43
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Her fury with Brichot increased all the more…04:33
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10'I don't know, old chap,' M. de Charlus went on…07:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11'The symbol of it,' I replied.05:21
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12I would be very surprised…06:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13'You must admit that would be very funny,' he said.04:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14What is more, M. de Charlus literally did not know which way to turn…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 5
1The night was just as lovely as it had been in 1914…05:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2At this point the violinist…05:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3I then understood Morel's fear.04:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4'I admire all the heroes in this war,' he said.05:06
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5It was a transparent night…04:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Something did strike me, though…05:10
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7'It's amazing the boss isn't back…'05:58
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8The oldest member of the group…05:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9All at once the door opened and someone entered…04:59
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10The baron even felt slightly resentful towards Jupien…04:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11A relationship with a woman one loves…05:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12I made my way downstairs…05:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13However, it was no good his suggesting…04:48
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14He anyway had no other room to offer me.05:36
Jason, Neville (Reader)
15'I don't doubt for a single moment…'04:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 6
1It was no good the young man…04:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2'Apparently he's got a million francs a day to burn through.'06:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3'The main reason I did that,' added Jupien…05:48
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Jupien appeared to be very troubled by what I had said…06:13
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5The moment the alarm had sounded…05:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Nonetheless the darkness went on…05:43
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7As for M. de Charlus…05:26
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Now, aberrations are like love affairs…05:24
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9I advised Françoise and the butler to go and get some sleep.06:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10Françoise was all the more troubled by these remarks…05:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11Every morning at six o'clock…04:20
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12I recalled his arrival that first time at Balbec…04:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13Françoise received the news…06:29
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14He must have been really magnificent in those final hours.05:33
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 7
1If not through his death…06:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Chapter Three04:38
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3My long absence from Paris…06:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4For me there was one good thing at least…05:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5The most moving thing, though…04:14
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Mme de Saint-Euverte's snobbery…05:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7At that moment the Duchesse de Létourville…06:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8I need not add…04:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Turning the sad thoughts I was mentioning a moment ago…04:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10While asking myself this question…04:33
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11The piece of music being played…05:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12I glossed swiftly over all that…06:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13However, this optical illusion…06:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14This meant that the person within me…06:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 8
1Impressions such as those I was trying to pin down…05:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2And even as I thought this…05:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3A slanting ray from the setting sun…06:48
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4'No more style,' people had said at the time,…05:24
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5Thus it was that for me that book…04:47
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6If I see a thing from another period…05:18
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7The library I would build up for myself in this way…05:42
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8An hour is not just an hour…06:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Even when it comes to artistic joys…05:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10That group imagined that this was the criterion…05:41
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11How could descriptive literature possibly have any value…05:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12And it was certainly very tempting…05:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13As for the truths that the intellect…04:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14In this matter, the very comparisons which are false…03:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 9
1It is not certain that imagination…05:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Moreover, I felt infinite sympathy…05:36
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3From this first point of view…05:09
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4If we had no rivals, pleasure would not turn into love.05:25
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5Just as the painter needs to have seen many churches…05:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6I was perhaps wrong…05:15
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7A writer says 'my reader' …06:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8What made it possible that this perverse way of thinking…05:20
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9I had seen nobles become vulgar…06:29
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10Jealousy is a good recruiting sergeant…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11I was going to try to find the objective reason…06:18
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Initially I could not understand…05:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13Even supposing that d'Argencourt had the same desire to smile…05:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14This was a puppet-show featuring dolls…04:45
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 10
1As for the woman whose lover M. d'Argencourt had been…06:45
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2The letter from this friend I had dreamed of having…06:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3When somebody, hearing that I was unwell…05:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4In certain people the replacement of each cell by a series of others…05:41
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5There was no doubt that the cruel discovery I had just made…05:06
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6I asked M. de Cambremer how his mother was.06:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7In several people I ended up recognising not only their actual selves…06:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Certain faces, beneath their hood of white hair…05:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9It was difficult to reconcile the two aspects…06:43
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10The women tried to stay in touch…05:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11The old men whose features had changed…05:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Nonetheless it is necessary to make one reservation…06:33
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13Just as a candidate at the baccalauréat…05:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 11
1Someone who had been a minister before the Boulangist period…04:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Mme de Forcheville’s appearance was so miraculous…04:59
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Mme de Forcheville’s eyes, which were still very lovely…06:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4'You may be painting too rosy a picture of it all,' he said to me.05:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5On the other hand, it was possibly true…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Certain foreigners who, when I had begun to move in society…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7During the war, Bloch had stopped 'going out'…06:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8In the end, after an elderly man…05:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9The woman who was a friend of Bloch…05:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10For the rest, one does have to say…05:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11It is true to say that having been impertinent…06:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12I must have so shocked men…05:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13There is no doubt that Bloch had formerly been…04:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14Not only do certain people have a good memory…05:24
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 12
1It was not only the appearance of these individuals…05:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Our parallel lives were like the edges…04:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3'What's the news of the Marquise d'Arpajon?'05:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4The spinster spotted that her mother…05:47
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5I had sat down beside Gilberte de Saint-Loup.05:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6'There is one aspect of war he was beginning to notice,' I said to her…05:36
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7'But how is it that you come to receptions…'05:25
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8And anyway, was it not in order to concern myself…05:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9As I looked at Gilberte I did not think…05:10
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10Now, the law that had governed the dreams of each year…06:10
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11The duchess was still hesitating…05:12
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Now meanwhile, at the other end of Paris…05:14
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13Unfortunately these notes merely allowed her son-in-law…05:38
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14Berma uttered not a word of reproach…04:29
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 13
1All the guests looked at one another…05:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2While this woman reciting La Fontaine's loveliest lines…05:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3I realised that the passage of time…06:21
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4However, since the talent of the best writers often dries up…05:33
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'I can't tell you how pleased I am to see you,' the duchess continued.05:58
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6To her, though…05:29
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7The past had become so transformed…06:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8The judgements the duchess then pronounced on Rachel…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9In the antechamber, where the couple's wait had gone…05:20
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10The life of the duchess went on being very unhappy too…05:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11I would certainly not have recognised him…04:43
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Thus it was that the apparently impregnable positions…05:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13In fact every time I subsequently tried to see her I failed to do so…04:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14There is not necessarily any contradiction, though…07:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 14
1To greet the duchess, she slightly bowed her fine head…04:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2'But how can I talk to you about stupid things like that?05:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3However, she did not pursue her thoughts…04:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Later on this daughter…05:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5One might say that if I tried not to use it unconsciously…06:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6How happy anyone who could write such a book would be…05:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7The papers that Francoise called my paperies…06:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8It was not like that now.05:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Now it did not trouble me…05:47
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10One of my selves…05:33
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11All at once, though, after a month…05:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12I myself had to write something different…04:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13I could, although the mistake would be more serious…04:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
14At that very moment, in the Prince de Guermantes' mansion…06:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)

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