Une page de Proust au hasard:
0090 Même quand il ne pouvait savoir où elle était allée
Et pourtant il aurait voulu vivre jusqu’à l’époque où il ne l’aimerait plus, où elle n’aurait aucune raison de lui mentir et où il pourrait enfin apprendre d’elle si le jour où il était allé la voir dans l’après-midi, elle était ou non couchée avec Forcheville. Souvent pendant quelques jours, le soupçon qu’elle aimait quelqu’un d’autre le détournait de se poser cette question relative à Forcheville, la lui rendait presque indifférente, comme ces formes nouvelles d’un même état maladif qui semblent momentanément nous avoir délivrés des précédentes. Même il y avait des jours où il n’était tourmenté par aucun soupçon. Il se croyait guéri. Mais le lendemain matin, au réveil, il sentait à la même place la même douleur dont, la veille pendant la journée, il avait comme dilué la sensation dans le torrent des impressions différentes. Mais elle n’avait pas bougé de place. Et même, c’était l’acuité de cette douleur qui avait réveillé Swann.
SUR LE MEME THEME:
- DU COTE DE CHEZ SWANN - SWANN'S WAY - PROUST
- UN AMOUR DE SWANN
- 0115 Jadis ayant souvent pensé avec terreur qu’un jour il cesserait d’être épris d’Odette
- 0114 Le peintre ayant été malade, le docteur Cottard lui conseilla un voyage en mer
- 0113 Quelquefois il allait dans des maisons de rendezvous, espérant apprendre quelque chose d’elle
STORY : Histoires de cinéma - Scénario - Pitch :
- Vidéo : Pierre Boutron, La Reine Morte, Henry de Montherlant - Téléfilm, 2009
- Robert Bresson: "Le mal déboule, vertigineux. La vie est presque entièrement faite de hasards."
- Les pleurs de Fanny Valette
- Nos vies suspendues aux femmes - Le Feu Follet - Louis Malle - Drieu la Rochelle
- François Truffaut : Robert Bresson et les visages : tuer la marionnette
- STRIPTEASE : se déshabiller en allumant - Céline Milliat-Baumgartner, comédienne : qu'est-ce qui excite tant dans un strip-tease, et jusqu'où ça excite ?
- Bordel discount : 70 euro la passe illimitée - Pussy Club, la prostitution face à la crise
- TOP 500 MUSIC (MYSPACE)
- 500 MEILLEURES CHANSONS EN ECOUTE SUR MYSPACE
- TOP MUSIQUE : 500 meilleures chansons de tous les temps - 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - TOP MUSIC






0090 Even when he could not discover where she had gone
Marcel Proust
"Remembrance of Things Past" (In Search of Lost Time),
translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930)
Even when he could not discover where she had gone, it would have sufficed to alleviate the anguish that he then felt, for which Odette’s presence, the charm of her company, was the sole specific (a specific which in the long run served, like many other remedies, to aggravate the disease, but at least brought temporary relief to his sufferings), it would have sufficed, had Odette only permitted him to remain in her house while she was out, to wait there until that hour of her return, into whose stillness and peace would flow, to be mingled and lost there, all memory of those intervening hours which some sorcery, some cursed spell had made him imagine as, somehow, different from the rest. But she would not; he must return home; he forced himself, on the way, to form various plans, ceased to think of Odette; he even reached the stage, while he undressed, of turning over all sorts of happy ideas in his mind: it was with a light heart, buoyed with the anticipation of going to see some favourite work of art on the morrow, that he jumped into bed and turned out the light; but no sooner had he made himself ready to sleep, relaxing a self-control of which he was not even conscious, so habitual had it become, than an icy shudder convulsed his body and he burst into sobs. He did not wish to know why, but dried his eyes, saying with a smile: “This is delightful; I’m becoming neurasthenic.” After which he could not save himself from utter exhaustion at the thought that, next day, he must begin afresh his attempt to find out what Odette had been doing, must use all his influence to contrive to see her. This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result, was so cruel a scourge that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had, perhaps, a tumour which would prove fatal, that he need not concern himself with anything further, that it was his malady which was going to govern his life, to make a plaything of him, until the not-distant end. If indeed, at this period, it often happened that, though without admitting it even to himself, he longed for death, it was in order to escape not so much from the keenness of his sufferings as from the monotony of his struggle.
And yet he would have wished to live until the time came when he no longer loved her, when she would have no reason for lying to him, when at length he might learn from her whether, on the day when he had gone to see her in the afternoon, she had or had not been in the arms of Forcheville. Often for several days on end the suspicion that she was in love with some one else would distract his mind from the question of Forcheville, making it almost immaterial to him, like those new developments of a continuous state of ill-health which seem for a little time to have delivered us from their predecessors. There were even days when he was not tormented by any suspicion. He fancied that he was cured. But next morning, when he awoke, he felt in the same place the same pain, a sensation which, the day before, he had, as it were, diluted in the torrent of different impressions. But it had not stirred from its place. Indeed, it was the sharpness of this pain that had awakened him.