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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis; Christopher Prendergast; Lydia Davis is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Marcel Proust. In Search Of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. "Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century." - TelegraphAs the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards 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 provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form. Each volume is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge. This edition has been edited by Christopher Predergast and translated by Lydia Davis. Also contains an introduction and

Who reads Swann's Way?

Author

Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis; Christopher Prendergast; Lydia Davis

Publisher

Penguin Random House UK

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141914152

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics

Rating

4.14 / 5 (222 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14