01 - CS1-3 - Noms de pays (96- 106)

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des bibliothèques basses à vitrines en glace

low bookcases with glass fronts (096)

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rien ne ressemblait moins à X que Y

nothing resembled X less than Y did (i.e., Y was the thing least like X)

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Le nom de Parme…m'apparaissant compact, lisse, mauve et doux, si on me parlait d'une maison quelconque de Parme dans laquelle je serais reçu, on me causait le plaisir de penser que j'habiterais une demeure lisse, compacte, mauve et douce, qui n'avait de rapport avec les demeures d'aucune ville d'Italie

The name of Parma seemed to me compact, smooth, mauve, and soft; so, if someone spoke of a house there where I might be welcomed, the very thought gave me pleasure—the idea of ​​dwelling in a smooth, compact, mauve, and soft abode, unlike the houses of any other Italian city, (Parme, not a place on a map but a cluster of sensations, no grit, smooth to the imagined touch, 096)

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sans doute ce à quoi aspirait mon imagination et que mes sens ne percevaient qu'incomplètement et sans plaisir dans le présent, je l'avais enfermé dans le refuge des noms ;

Doubtless, I had locked away in the sanctuary of names that for which my imagination yearned—things my senses perceived only imperfectly and without pleasure in the present; (097)

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Florence, c'était comme à une ville miraculeusement embaumée et semblable à une corolle,

Florence, it was like a city miraculously fragrant and resembling a flower-corolla (096)

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et parce qu'on ne peut pas faire tenir dans un nom beaucoup plus de durée que d'espace - comme certains tableaux de Giotto eux-mêmes qui montrent à deux moments différents de l'action un même personnage, ici couché dans son lit, là s'apprêtant à monter à cheval, le nom de Florence était-il divisé en deux compartiments.

and because one cannot pack into a name much more duration than space – like certain paintings by Giotto himself that depict the same figure at two different moments of the action: here lying in bed, there preparing to mount a horse, the name Florence was divided into two compartments, (097)

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un biais

a bias (097)

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quelques jours de printemps précoce

a few days of early spring (097)

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à volonté

at will, as one pleases, on demand

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la blanchisseuse

the laundress (097)

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se diriger

to head toward, set out toward a goal (097)

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rien ne ressemblait moins non plus à ce Balbec réel que celui dont j'avais souvent rêvé,

nothing resembled this real Balbec less, either, than the one I had dreamed of on stormy days (096)

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Ces images (qui auraient pu se confondre avec elle aux yeux d'un observateur qui ne voit les choses que du dehors, c'est-à-dire qui ne voit rien)

“These images (which might have seemed indistinguishable to an observer viewing things only from the outside – that is, seeing nothing at all)”(097). That outsider sees only what is publicly there: a face, a façade, a name on a map. Proust’s parenthesis refuses that view. What is missing is the charge those images carry for the one who holds them: desire, the sound of the name, the particular pleasures already imagined. Without this inward life, the images collapse into the object itself and become interchangeable with it. The distinction Proust cares about is not between true and false pictures. It is between a surface anyone can look at and the inner version, which an outside observer cannot see at all.

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<p>le trèfle gothique </p>

le trèfle gothique

the Gothic trifoil (096)

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saupoudré

sprinkled with (salt, sugar or flour)

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J'aurais voulu prendre le train

I would have liked to take the train

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quand le petit jour se lèverait sur la mer

when the dawn broke over the sea (096)

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Dès lors, seuls les rayons, les parfums, les couleurs me semblaient avoir du prix ;

From then on, only the rays of light, the scents, and the colours seemed to me to hold any value (096)

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« Le recherche du temps perdu, en fait, est une recherche de la vérité. Si elle s'appelle du temps perdu, c'est seulement dans la mésure où la vérité a un rapport essential avec le temps. »

“In Search of Lost Time is, in fact, a search for truth. If it is called "lost time," it is only insofar as truth has an essential relationship with time.” (GD)

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ainsi pour conséquence

consequently (096)

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ils eurent ainsi pour conséquence de rendre l'image plus belle, mais aussi plus différente de ce que les villes de Normandie ou de Toscane pouvaient être en réalité ;

Consequently, they made that image more beautiful, yet also more unlike than what the towns of Normandy or Tuscany were like ;

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Les mots nous présentent des choses une petite image claire et usuelle comme celles que l'on suspend aux murs des écoles pour donner aux enfants l'exemple de ce qu'est un établi, un oiseau, une fourmilière, choses conçues comme pareilles à toutes celles de même sorte.

Words present to us of things a small, clear, and ordinary image, like those that are hung on the walls of schools to give children the example of what a workbench is, a bird, an anthill, things conceived as identical to all those of the same kind. (096)

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« Le plus haut degré de liberté, c'est de ne pas attirer l'attention des autres. »

The highest degree of freedom to not attract the attention of others. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

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« Noms de pays: le nom »

Vol. 1 - Part III. “Place Names: The Name. Le Nom is the virtual, desired place produced by language: Balbec, Florence, Venice exist for the young narrator only as sonorous, dreamed-of words that generate imaginary landscapes, climates and desires. These names precede and exceed any real geography; they are sites of expectation and possess an almost magical power of evocation.

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« Noms de pays: le pays »

Vol. 2 - Part II - Place-Names: The Place - Le Pays is the actual place that the name both fails to predict and, after the encounter, begins to designate differently, the moment names collide with actual places. The narrator arrives at Balbec. The narrator is disappointed by the banal hotel, the ordinary sea & town; but a unforeseen reality begins to form (a band of girls, Elstir, Albertine). The “pays” is a lived, contingent surface that both destroys and remakes the name.

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toute la pièce

the entire room (096)

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des grands sinistres et naufrages

great disasters and shipwrecks

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une digue

a sea wall, embankment

<p>a sea wall, embankment</p>
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Finistère

western Brittany (Brest, Qimper, 096)

<p>western Brittany (Brest, Qimper, 096)</p>
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une échantillon (du gothique normand)

an example (096)

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surchargé de noms

overloaded with names (096)

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le printemps le plus diapré

the most multicoloured spring (096)

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un givre

frost (096)

<p>frost (096)</p>
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avoir du prix

to have value (096)

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le front

the front line in warfare, reorientation of the line; forehead, brow (096)

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un changement de front du désir

a change in the territory of desire (096)

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Puis il arriva que

Then it came to pass that (096)

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l'agrément du hasard

the charm of chance (096)

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un jour de tempête

a stormy day (096)

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décharnée

scrawny

<p>scrawny</p>
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la mer décharnée

the bare sea (097)

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une manière désuète de prononcer

an obsolete way of pronouncing (097)

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Marie-Henri Beyle, La Chartreuse de Parme (1839)

Stendahl,The Charterhouse of Parma (romanticizes Parma as a setting for passion, intrigue, and subtle emotional depths, 097)

<p>Stendahl,<em>The Charterhouse of Parma (</em>romanticizes Parma as a setting for passion, intrigue, and subtle emotional depths, 097)</p>
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de douceur stendhalienne

Stendhalian sweetness (097)

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s'affermir

to become stronger

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Si ma santé s'affermissait

If my health were to improve

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avoir beau

+infinitive, to do something in vain


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mais j'avais beau les comparer

but in vain did I compare them (097)

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le faîte

summit, ridge (097)

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le verre grossissant

magnifying glass

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un bain de mer

a seaside resort (providing changing-rooms and dividing people into genders, 097)

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une église de style persan

The church of Balbec (XII-XIII, half Romanesque, half Norman, "so singular, it looks like Persian art," 097)

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« Tant que je m'étais contenté d'apercevoir du fond de mon lit de Paris l'église persane de Balbec au milieu des flocons de la tempête. »

"As long as I had been content to glimpse from my bed in Paris the Persian church of Balbec amid the storm's flakes."

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l'empire

hold, sway, power; political territory

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l'empire que ces images prirent sur moi.

the hold these images had over me (the narrator's daydreams constitue an until confronted with the actual places, leading to disillusionment, 097)

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s'apprêter

to get ready (to do sth), to prepare to (097)

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pensant aux noms comme à une ambiance réelle dans laquelle j'irais me plonger, la vie non vécue encore, la vie intacte et pure

thinking of names as a real atmosphere into which I would plunge, the life not yet lived, the pure and intact (097)

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des jonquilles

daffodils (097, 202)

<p>daffodils (097, 202)</p>
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Pour parcourir les jours

To get through the days (097)

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rassasier

ruminate, mull over (sth obsessively on one's mind)

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se rassasier

to satisfy oneself to the point of fullness, either intellectually or emotionaly (097)

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Pendant ce mois - où je ressasai comme une mélodie, sans pouvoir m'en rassasier, ces images de Florence, de Venise et de Pise desquelles le désir qu'elles excitaient en moi gardait quelque chose d'aussi profondément individuel

"During that month — in which I kept ruminating, like a melody, without being able to satisfy myself with them, those images of Florence, of Venice, and of Pisa, of which the desire that they aroused in me kept something alaos deeply personal" (097)

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sorti pour une course

out running errands

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ciseler

to chisel, carve

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refréner

restrain, curb (097)

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une poussée

surge, outbreak, rise (097)

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à refréner la progressive poussée

to restrain the gradual surge (of the cold, 097)

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Elle est heureuse, et il l'est aussi.

"She is happy, and he is so too."

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Les villes étaient bien réelles. Elles le devinrent encore plus pour moi

The cities were quite real. They became even more so for me (097)

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arriver à Florence dès le matin de Pâques

to arrive in Florence on Easter morning (097)

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« ce Temps qui se refabrique si bien qu'on peut encore le passer dans une ville après qu'on l'a passé dans une autre »

"this Time which remakes itself so well that one can still spend it in one city after having spent it in another" (capitalized "Time" - is hallmark of an abstract concept as an active, almost autonomous entity capable of "remaking" itself in the narrator's imagination; 097)

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les jacinthes des bois

wild hyacinths (079, 097)

<p>wild hyacinths (079, 097)</p>
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les coloris

coloring, tint (implying the quality, vibrancy or overall palette of colours; cf. le couleur; 097)

<p>coloring, tint (implying the quality, vibrancy or overall palette of colours; cf. le couleur; 097)</p>
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l'allégresse

joy, elation (098)

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atteigner

to attain a goal, to reach

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la malle

trunk, chest

<p>trunk, chest</p>
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un veston

a jacket

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des avertissements

warnings (004, 098, 114)

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une photographie

photo

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une désincarnation

a disembodiment (098, 166)

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je sentis s'opérer en moi une miraculeuse désincarnation

I felt a miraculous disembodiment taking place within me (098)

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se doubler de

to be coupled with sth

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se dévêtir

undress (se déshabiller, 098)

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que mon imagination avait enfermée dans le nom de Venise

which my imagination had enclosed in the name of Venice (098)

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une miraculeuse désincarnation

a miraculous disembodiment (098)

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vague; la vague

vague, unclear; wave, influx

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la vague envie de

the vague urge to

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Bergotte

author who loved Berma; dies in front of Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft (Anatole France, 098)

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se fatiguer

to tire oneself out (098)

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chercher (qn) aux Champs-Élysées

fetch (sby) from (Elysian Fields)

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un manteau à pèlerin

a hooded cape (100, 101)

<p>a hooded cape (100, 101)</p>
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lasser de

to tire of (doing sth)

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« filons! »

"let's get out of here!" (098, 247)

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« voir »

just, why don't you (colloquial expletive of working-class speech of late XIX-XX)

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aboutonner

to button up (boutonner)

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« Allons, aboutonnez voir votre paletot et filons »

"Come on, just put on your coat and let's go"

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un paletot

a coat

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un goûter

tea party (098, 100)

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raser

to bore; shave; raze (to the ground)

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« C'est rasant, je ne pourrai pas venir demain »

"It's a bore, I won't be able to come tomorrow" (098)