Swann's Way (Norton Critical Editions) by Marcel Proust

Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

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1. Francis Planté (1839–1934) was a famous French pianist who played at many Parisian salons. Anton Grigorievitch Rubinstein (1829–1894) was a great Russian composer and pianist. Pierre-Charles-Edouard Potain (1825–1901) was a French cardiologist and physician whose discoveries contributed greatly to the field of cardiology. He invented a mechanism for measuring arterial pressure.

2. “Answered the bell”: a domestic servant would respond when the mistress of the house rang a bell.

3. The “Ride of the Valkyries” and Prelude to Tristan are orchestral pieces by Richard Wagner that begin Act III of his opera Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) and Act I of his opera Tristan and Isolde, respectively.

4. “Fishing for compliments” is in English in the original.

5. The Conclave is a meeting of cardinals to elect a new pope in the Roman Catholic Church.

6. “What is this … understand it” is a verse from La Dame blanche, an opera by François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834). “Vision fugitive …” is a verse from an aria of that name in Hérodiade, an opera by Jules Massenet (1842–1912). That opera, though, would have been written after this episode of the narrator’s grandfather. “In matters … one’s eyes” is a verse from Amphitryon, an opera by André-Erneste-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813) that was adapted from Molière’s play of the same name.

7. Jan Vermeer (1632–1675) was a famous Dutch painter. The frog in the fable is a reference to Aesop’s fable The Frog and the Ox, in which a lowly frog bursts in the attempt to swell himself to the size of a magnificent ox.

8. Madame Verdurin is referring to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (premiered in 1824) and to Wagner’s opera Die Meistersinger (The Meistersingers).

9. Latin for “immaterial.”

10. Atalanta is a huntress in Greek mythology known for her speed as a runner.

11. Léon Gambetta (1838–1882) was a statesman who helped direct France’s defense during the Franco-German war. He was given a national funeral.

12. Les Danicheff is a play by Pierre de Corvin-Kroukowsky and Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895).

13. Jules Grévy (1807–1891) was president of the Third Republic from 1879 to 1887.

14. Pieter de Hooch (c. 1629–c. 1684) was a Dutch genre painter known for his clever treatment of light and for works that often featured views into distant rooms.

15. A place of pilgrimage at the foot of Mont Sembola in the Maritime Alps near Nice.

16. Zipporah, wife of the biblical Moses, is featured in Life of Moses, a series of frescoes in the Sistine Chapel painted by Alessandro di Mariano, also called Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445–1510).

17. Antonio Rizzo (c. 1440–c. 1499) was an Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–1494) was a Florentine painter of the early Renaissance. Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto (1518–1594) was a Venetian Renaissance painter.

18. The Paris-Murcie Fête was a charity ball held at the Hippodrome in Paris on December 18, 1879, to raise money for victims of floods that had almost destroyed the Murcia province in Spain the previous October.

19. Eurydice is a character in Greek mythology, whose husband, Orpheus, attempted to rescue her from the Underworld.

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