And this pleasure, different from every other, had in the end created in him a need of her, which she alone, by her presence or by her letters, could assuage, almost as disinterested, almost as artistic, as perverse as another need which characterised this new period in Swann's life, when the sereness, the depression of the preceding years had been followed by a sort of spiritual superabundance, without his knowing to what he owed this unlooked-for enrichment of his life, any more than a person in delicate health who from a certain moment grows stronger, puts on flesh, and seems for a time to be on the road to a complete recovery: -this other need, which, too, developed in him independently of the visible, material world, was the need to listen to music and to learn to know it.
Eta beste guztietatik arras diferentea zèn plazer horrek Swannengan finkatua zuèn Odetteren premia, Odetteren hutsunea, Odettek berak edo Odetteren gutunek soilik bete zezaketena, hain erabatekoa zen non Swannen garai hartako beste grina jakin bat bezain desinteresatua bihurtua baitzen, hura bezain artistikoa, hura bezain bihurria; izan ere, Swannen bizitzaren aldi berri hartan, aurreko urteetako idortasunari, ahuleziari, nolabaiteko gainezkadura espiritual bat jarraikia zitzaion, Swannek berak bere barne-bizitzaren aberaste ustekabeko hura nondik zetorkion jakin ere ez zekiena, osasun erkineko pertsona batek bere burua, halako batean, sendotzen, mardultzen, behin betiko susperraldia dirudienera heltzen ari dela sumatzen duenean bezalaxe: beste beharrizan hori, berau ere mundu errealetik kanpoko sorkari, musika zen, musika aditzeko, musika ezagutzeko premia.