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Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1
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This edition has been annotated with the following unique
ABOUT SWANN’S WAY
“In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.”
Swann's Way is the first of seven books that comprise Marcel Proust's magnum opus In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu, 1913-1927), which established him as one of the finest voices of the modern era. The novel explores Proust's central the meaning of love and time, as understood through an individual's memories. It is filled with vivid descriptions of French bourgeois and aristocratic life at the turn of the century.
The narrator seeks an answer to the question of what exactly constitutes an individual's identity by reflecting on his life and childhood—a beautiful and moving exploration of life in art and the past created anew through memory.
This edition has been annotated with the following unique
ABOUT SWANN’S WAY
“In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.”
Swann's Way is the first of seven books that comprise Marcel Proust's magnum opus In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu, 1913-1927), which established him as one of the finest voices of the modern era. The novel explores Proust's central the meaning of love and time, as understood through an individual's memories. It is filled with vivid descriptions of French bourgeois and aristocratic life at the turn of the century.
The narrator seeks an answer to the question of what exactly constitutes an individual's identity by reflecting on his life and childhood—a beautiful and moving exploration of life in art and the past created anew through memory.
357 pages, Paperback
Published July 11, 2023
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Marcel Proust
2,155 books7,539 followersMarcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.
Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. He was also plagued with severe asthma, which had troubled him intermittently since childhood, and a terror of his own death, especially in case it should come before his novel had been completed. The first volume, after some difficulty finding a publisher, came out in 1913, and Proust continued to work with an almost inhuman dedication on his masterpiece right up until his death in 1922, at the age of 51.
Today he is widely recognized as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, and À la recherche du temps perdu as one of the most dazzling and significant works of literature to be written in modern times.
Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. He was also plagued with severe asthma, which had troubled him intermittently since childhood, and a terror of his own death, especially in case it should come before his novel had been completed. The first volume, after some difficulty finding a publisher, came out in 1913, and Proust continued to work with an almost inhuman dedication on his masterpiece right up until his death in 1922, at the age of 51.
Today he is widely recognized as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, and À la recherche du temps perdu as one of the most dazzling and significant works of literature to be written in modern times.
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