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Swann's Way

by Unknown Author

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694 pages2002VintageISBN 9780099362210

About this book

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.

Publication Details

Publisher
Vintage
Published
2002
Pages
694
ISBN
9780099362210
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust était un romancier, critique littéraire et essayiste français surtout connu pour son roman *À la recherche du temps perdu*, publié en sept volumes entre 1913 et 1927. Il est considéré par les critiques et les écrivains comme l'un des auteurs les plus influents du XXe siècle. ---------- Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel *À la recherche du temps perdu* (translated in English as *Remembrance of Things Past* or In *Search of Lost Time),* which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. ([Source][1]) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust

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