Swann's Way Vol. 1

Name: Swann's Way Vol. 1
Rating: 3.9 (9 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780300189605

by Unknown Author

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256 pages2013Yale University PressISBN 9780300189605

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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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Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780300189605

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