Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

This self-contained opening volume of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST introduces the important themes of the novel: childhood, memory, love both idealized and unrequited, and the narrator's fascination with society and the aristocracy. The narrator's childhood memories include the famous madeleine scene, and the destructive love affair between Swann and Odette. The musician Vinteuil's evocative "little phrase" is also introduced in this volume, which also describes Marcel's awareness of "the two ways," the paths that intersect the village of Combray where he lives: the Guermantes Way, leading to the house of an aristocratic family, and Swann's Way, leading to the less exalted, more "literary" home of Swann, who is a family friend.

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ISBN 9780141180588	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1998	Price $1.00	USED
ISBN 9780394705941	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Vintage Books	Date 1970	Price $1.00	Used, Good
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Publisher Notes

A new translation of the first volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors and includes the novella, Swann's Love. Reprint.

Media Reviews

"'Swann's Way' is not a book to read on the train, skipping over the pages with one eye on the landscape; it is a book of true originality and profundity to the point of strangeness, claiming the reader's attention and even seizing it forcibly....A novel of analysis, yes; but I know of few novels in which the analysis penetrates so deep. At times you want to cry out, 'Enough!' as to a surgeon who spares no detail in describing an operation. Yet you never say it. You keep on turning the pages feverishly in order to see further into the souls of these characters."

First Line

The Captive: At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what tone the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like.
The Fugitive: "Mademoiselle Albertine is gone!"

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