Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

From the French novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of his monumental masterpiece, one of the most sensitive renderings of childhood in fiction and a brilliant meditation on the recreation of the past through memory and art.

In C. K. Scott Moncrieff's heralded original English translation, as revised by Terence Kilmartin based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.

Swann's Way is the most frequently read part of Proust's epic novel, Remembrance of Things Past (also known as In Search of Lost Time). It introduces subjects that resonate throughout the entire work, including the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte, Swann's jealous passion for Odette, and the rise of the nouveaux-riches Verdurins. Proust's narrator vividly recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, most famously in a fraught evocation of his mother's good-night kiss and in the iconic scene where the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea brings back a flood of memory.
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ISBN 13 9780679720096
ISBN 10 067972009X
Title Swann's Way
Author Marcel Proust
Series Vintage Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 1989-03-13
Number of pages 496
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.