Beginning with an "overture" in which the narrator remembers his childhood in Combray after tasting a Madeleine, FTP, name this seven-part novel by Marcel Proust.
The protagonist of this work resolves to marry another character after learning that she may have had a lesbian relationship with Mademoiselle Vinteuil. Its third section ends with a duchess changing from black to red shoes to attend a fancy-dress ball instead of comforting a dying man, and begins with the narrator watching La Berma's performance of Phèdre. The narrator is similarly inspired by the paintings of Elstir, whose studio he visits in Balbec, and Bergotte, who becomes a member of the "little clan" of the Verdurins in its fourth section. The narrator's relationship with Albertine is paralleled by the one in its first section between Odette de Crecy and Charles Swann. Beginning with an "overture" in which the narrator remembers his childhood in Combray after tasting a Madeleine, FTP, name this seven-part novel by Marcel Proust.
The protagonist of this work resolves to marry another character after learning that she may have had a lesbian relationship with Mademoiselle Vinteuil.
{In Search of Lost Time} [or {Remembrance of Things Past} or A {La Recherche du Temps Perdu}]