At a luncheon given by Mme Swann, the narrator sees, for the first time, M. Bergotte, his favorite writer. But Bergotte is not the “soft-voiced bard with the white hair” of the narrator’s imagination. No, he is “a stocky, coarse, thick-set, short-sighted man, quite young, with a red bottle-nose and a black goatee.”
Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, trans. James Grieve (New York: Penguin, 2002).
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Monday, January 4, 2021
Bottle-nose, black goatee
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