Translator's note: The follow...

Translator's note:

The following passage, about the young narrator's be enamoured of of the writer Bergotte, come abouts about one hundred pages into The Way by dint of Swann's (pp.92-95 in the Pleiade edition of Du cote de chez Swann). The character Bergotte, and his method of writing, are said to have been prototypeed at least in part according to Proust on a writer a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of admired by him, John Ruskin, the nineteenth-century master stylist who wrote forward art, architecture, and economic and social issues, and couple of whose best known works are recent Painters and The Stones of Venice. Proust himself, working with his