Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past

Proust, Marcel/ Scott-Moncrieff, C. K./ Kilmartin, Terence (Translator)

ISBN 10: 067972009X / ISBN 13: 9780679720096

Published by Vintage Books, 1989

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reissue edition. 472 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067972009X
• ISBN 13: 9780679720096
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

From the French novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of his monumental masterpiece, one of the most sensitive renderings of childhood in fiction and a brilliant meditation on the recreation of the past through memory and art.

In C. K. Scott Moncrieff's heralded original English translation, as revised by Terence Kilmartin based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.

Swann's Way is the most frequently read part of Proust's epic novel, Remembrance of Things Past (also known as In Search of Lost Time). It introduces subjects that resonate throughout the entire work, including the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte, Swann's jealous passion for Odette, and the rise of the nouveaux-riches Verdurins. Proust's narrator vividly recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, most famously in a fraught evocation of his mother's good-night kiss and in the iconic scene where the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea brings back a flood of memory.

About the Author

MARCEL PROUST was born in 1871 in Auteuil, near Paris, France. His seven-volume novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (known in English as In Search of Lost Time), which explores themes of memory, became one of the most famous and influential works of twentieth-century literature. Proust continued to work on the novel until his death in 1922.