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Swann's Way
Contributor(s): Proust, Marcel (Author)
ISBN: 067972009X     ISBN-13: 9780679720096
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 1989
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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!
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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
 
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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.