This novel is in turn followed by Cities of the Plain, and takes its name from the aristocratic family contrasted with the Swanns.
In a notable essay, Nabokov dubbed the protagonist of this novel "the eavesdropper" due to a dinner scene when he hears a woman say she asked a Russian duke, "Sir, I hear you would like to have Tolstoy murdered?'" In one scene, the hostess of a party pretends to be asleep when a guest tries to apologize for breaking a vase of apple blossoms. In the last scene, a character visits old friends carrying a photo for a book he's writing on the Knights of Malta, but when he reveals that he's terminally ill, they delay so the Duchess can change into red shoes. After a performance of Phedre by the actress Berma, the protagonist stalks the Duchess Oriane. In this novel, Bloch embarrasses himself by arguing about the Dreyfus Affair at a matinee organized by Madame de Villeparisis. It begins with the narrator moving away from Balbec after recovering from his feelings for Albertine in the earlier book Within a Budding Grove. This novel is in turn followed by Cities of the Plain, and takes its name from the aristocratic family contrasted with the Swanns. FTP, name this third novel in Remembrance of Things Past.
In a notable essay, Nabokov dubbed the protagonist of this novel "the eavesdropper" due to a dinner scene when he hears a woman say she asked a Russian duke, "Sir, I hear you would like to have Tolstoy murdered?'"
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