Summary “Sodom and Gomorrah”
Marcel opened the secret to de Charles, becoming an unwitting witness to the love pantomime. At the sight of Jupien, the haughty aristocrat suddenly whined backwards and began to build his eyes, and the waistcoat succulently drew himself up and reached for the baron, like an orchid to the Suddenly Bumblebee. Both instantly recognized each other, although they had never met before. The shroud fell from the eyes of Marcel: all the oddities of de Charles immediately received an explanation. It was not by chance that the baron liked to compare himself with the caliph from Arabian fairy tales, who was walking around Baghdad in the clothes of a street vendor: the inhabitant of Sodom lives in a world where the most fantastic connections become reality – a homosexual can throw the duchess for the sake of a swindled swindler.
At the Hermitage-Bavarian Princess Marcel met Professor E. Upon learning of the death of his grandmother, he was delighted – his diagnosis was correctly
Relations with Albertina moved to a new stage – Marcel Started to suspect that she was leading some other life hidden from him. He decided to resort to the already tested reception and for a while to part with the girl. Mrs. Verduren has strengthened her position in society so much that she could afford to rent the Marquise de Govozo Castle (La Raspellier), located
Albertine appeared in Balbec, but Marcel first avoided her. He began to visit the “environments” of the Verdurins to listen to the music of Venteil. The old pianist died and was replaced by the handsome violinist Charles Morel. Baron de Charlus, in love with Morel, condescended to the Verdurenov salon, who at first treated him haughtily, for they did not suspect his high standing in society. When the Baron noticed that the best of their guests would not have been allowed to go beyond the hallway of his brother’s duke, Dr. Kotar said “true” that Mrs. Verduren is a secured woman, and compared to her, the Princess of Germany is just a glitch. Mrs. Verduren kept anger at the Baron, but before Time he endured his antics.
Marcel began to meet again with Albertina, and jealousy flared with the same strength – it seemed to him that the girl flirted with both Morel and St. Louis. However, the thought of Gomorrah did not occur to him until he saw Albertina and Andre dance, hugging each other’s chest. True, Albertina indignantly rejected the very possibility of such a connection, but Marcel felt that he lives in the atmosphere of a widespread vice – so, Blok’s cousin lived with the actress, shocking her scandalous whole Balbec.
Gradually Marcel came to the conviction that he should break with his lover. Mom did not approve of this connection, and Francoise, despising Albertina for poverty, insisted that the young owner would not get into trouble with this girl. Marcel waited only for an excuse, but an unforeseen happened; when he mentioned his desire to listen to the latest vestiges of Ventueyl, Albertina said that she knows the daughter of the composer and her friend well-she considers these girls as her “older sisters”, because she learned a lot from them. Shocked, Marcel seemed to have seen the long-forgotten scene in Montjuvena in a waking state: memories drowsed in him like a formidable avenger-it was retribution for failing to save his grandmother. From now on, the image of Albertia will be connected for him not with the waves of the sea, but with a spittle in the photo of Ventheil. Presenting the beloved in the arms of a lesbian, he burst into tears of impotent rage and announced to his terrified mother that he needed to marry Albertine. When the girl agreed to settle with him, he kissed her as chaste as kissing his mother in Combra.
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