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    The Fugitive

    Written by Marcel Proust

    Narrated by Neville Jason

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    Albertine has finally made her escape from Marcel’s Paris apartment, where his obsessive jealousy had turned her into a virtual prisoner. Not only is Marcel quite unprepared for the effect on him of her flight, but soon he is devastated by news of an even more irreversible loss. The penultimate volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateFeb 1, 2001
    ISBN9789629546113
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    Marcel Proust

    Marcel Proust was born in Paris in 1871. His family belonged to the wealthy upper middle class, and Proust began frequenting aristocratic salons at a young age. Leading the life of a society dilettante, he met numerous artists and writers. He wrote articles, poems, and short stories (collected as Les Plaisirs et les Jours), as well as pastiches and essays (collected as Pastiches et Mélanges) and translated John Ruskin’s Bible of Amiens. He then went on to write novels. He died in 1922.

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    • 4/5
      In this volume Proust's previous actions end with fitting resolution, with the captive of the last volume becoming the fugitive, and leaving him. The tone for a good part of this volume follows on from the previous one, with his jealousy and suspicion eventually bringing to surface some unexpected revelations, which are followed in the latter part of the book by other surprises, from elsewhere. Proust more or less comes to terms with his grief eventually, but fails to return to the quality of happinesses of the first couple of volumes, with the marriages of two of his once intimate friends provoking almost an attitude of indifference from him, showing perhaps his understandable weariness. Hopefully things will turn out better for him in the final volume.
    • 4/5
      This out if tune music is really annoying. Apart from that, I can't wait to reach the end of the next book and get the conclusion I've been longing.
    • 3/5
      Deel VI. Proust worstelt met het vertrek van Albertine. Duidelijk minder, door gebrek aan lijn
    • 5/5
      Fascinating story narration is good. Only one more vol to go!
    • 4/5
      I found this penultimate volume of Proust's series the fastest moving one yet. There is some musing and philosophizing by Marcel, as always, but there are also several exciting and/or surprising events.
    • 4/5
      Although this is the one volume some have advised the casual reader of Proust to skip entirely when dipping into the series, it plays an important role in showing the Narrator sink to his lowest level. He has adopted all the mores of the upper classes while simultaneously engaging in activities they forbid. Deciding to live with Albertine was the one serious choice he made, at the end of Cities of the Plain, and now when obsessive jealousy and an atmosphere of secrets destroyed the basis of that relationship. When the sudden disappearance of his mistress Albertine becomes permanent, he sinks down into himself and is eft with emptiness. He has not been equipped to know where to look for something or someone that will give back to his life any kind of meaning in this world he no longer controls. In this state of mind, he observes the life changes of those in his circle, abrupt changes in fortune and status, and while he knows what they mean according to the code of the ancien régime, on another level he can also sense too keenly how insubstantial is their underlying foundation.

      By this point (and really by the beginning of The Captive), Proust is almost completely done with introducing important characters, which I appreciated. Instead of the whirl of names at the salons and on trains and carriages earlier, he brings in a completely new setting in a country we haven’t visited before. It is effective, particularly during an episode where a mistransmitted telegram is mistaken for an apparent message from the dead woman.

      At the end of this book we have the strange motif that Proust uses of having a turn toward homosexuality or bisexuality encapsulate the idea of a character’s ruination. The only exception is the Narrator himself, who remains steadfastly straight. This feels like a ground rule that Proust set up and refuses to break, making it hard to support a strictly autobiographical reading of the series.

      There are also some fine stretches of writing here including some of the biting wit we have seen before. But the sections which spoke to me the most were the Narrator’s musings on what it is like to continue after the death of someone who once meant a lot to him. What does it say about our lives if friends become unrecognizable, if even love can die in one’s heart?
    • 3/5
      Deel VI. Proust worstelt met het vertrek van Albertine. Duidelijk minder, door gebrek aan lijn