Word: lesbians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country town of Combray, the seaside at Balbec, falls in love with little Gilberte Swann. The story of M. Swann's hopeless love affair with Odette is introduced. Later the narrator takes up with Albertine, is desperately unhappy with her?among other reasons, because he suspects her of Lesbian tendencies. She runs away from him and is killed in an accident. During the War the narrator takes refuge in a sanitarium, emerges to find his social world tottering, aged, ready for death. As U. S. Proustian Edmund Wilson epitomizes, "in the long last sentence of the book the word 'Time...
Into the charmed bohemian circle comes boyish Daniel Boleyn under the patronage of aged albino Horace Zagreus, reputed to be simply Wilde about young men. Zagreus undertakes to show Boleyn the ropes of Bohemia, sends him off to tea-parties and interviews with Apes Flagellant, Lesbian and the like. Boleyn takes his orders very seriously but cannot understand what it is all about. At Lord Osmund's drunken Lenten party all the world tries to act crazy, succeeds. Because of his comparatively sane behavior Boleyn, more mystified than ever, is cast off by Zagreus in favor of young Archie...
...book contains: three short stories, all readable, one Kiplingesque, one (about an intelligent madman) first-class; a notebook section with the first and last chapters of an autobiography of God; a three-act play of post-War morals and emotions, in which there are two suicides (one Lesbian, one oldfashioned hypocrite), one murder (of a homosexual husband), no arrests, and no solution in sight. Perhaps not meant to be acted, the play mulls over many an idea. Central theme: that the greatest calamity in history was not the late great War but an earlier, unperceived event, when "the bottom dropped...