the Marquis de Saint-Loup-en-Bray

by | Nov 15, 2011 | In Search of Lost Time

Marcel, the narrator of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, is in Balbec, a resort on the north coast of France. We read this:   One very hot afternoon, from inside the dining room [of the hotel], which was in half-darkness, sheltering from the sun behind...