Swann's Way Contributor(s): Proust, Marcel (Author) |
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ISBN: 067972009X ISBN-13: 9780679720096 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1989 Annotation: The first and best known volume of one of the landmarks of world literature. Available separately for those who want to approach Proust carefully! |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 88040508 |
Series: Vintage Classics |
Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.19" W x 7.99" (0.82 lbs) 496 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece--in the classic Scott Moncrieff-Kilmartin translation--is not only a perfect introduction to a literary landmark, it also stands on its own as one of the most sensitive renderings of childhood in fiction and a brilliant meditation on the recreation of the past through art and memory. 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. |