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In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way Vol 1 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century"One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon." - The TimesIn 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. Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbours, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel "Swann in Love," an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. "Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too. No reader ever forgets his most killingly funny scenes... Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful. Not the least of it is the book's hea

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Author
Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Published
1996
Language
EN
ISBN
9780099362210
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Classics
Rating
4.14 / 5 (319 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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