Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of… — Marcel Proust
Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.
In the original French
Et dès que j’eus reconnu le goût du morceau de madeleine trempé dans le tilleul que me donnait ma tante...aussitôt la vieille maison grise sur la rue, où était sa chambre, vint comme un décor de théâtre s’appliquer au petit pavillon.
In Search of Lost Time · 1913
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Current citation
Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.
Original citation
Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.
