Swann's way / Marcel Proust ; translated [from the French] by C.K. Scott Moncrief Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922

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Author
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Subjects
Villages - France - Fiction.; France - Social life and customs - 19th century - Fiction.; Social life and customs
Audience
Adult; General
Summary
In this opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator seems at first to be launching a fairly traditional life-story. But after the prelude the narrator travels backwards rather than forwards in time, in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette, together with the comic antics of the Verdurins and the adoring members of their 'little clan', provide a prophetic model of the narrator's own love-relationships and peregrinations in salon society. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.
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2043315

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