Author(s): Marcel Proust
Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.
The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent’s landlady. The hero’s grandmother is ill and dies. A night at the Princess de Parme’s. The hero meets the extraordinary M. de Charlus and enters into a wary relationship with him. – Summary by Michael O’Kelly