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Swanns Way

by Marcel Proust
Swanns Way

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ISBN13: 9780679720096
ISBN10: 067972009X
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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.

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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 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.

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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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Bibliography: p. [465]-466.

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Marcel Proust was born in 1871 and by his twenties was a conspicuous figure in fashionable Parisian society. After 1907, however, he rarely emerged from a cork-lined room in his apartment on the Boulevard Haussmann, devoting himself to his writing. He died in 1922 before the publication of the last three volumes of his great work.

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A classic, of course, but still a contemporary model of eloquence and imagination, and flowing out of Monsieur Swann's eating a small sugar cookie whose flavor he recalls as previous experience and he begins to "summon up the remembrance of things past." Well worth a long, contemplative reading experience.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679720096
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
03/13/1989
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Series info:
Vintage Classics
Pages:
496
Height:
1.08IN
Width:
5.19IN
Thickness:
1.00
Series:
Vintage International (Paperback)
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1989
Series Volume:
0000
UPC Code:
2800679720098
Editor:
Erroll McDonald
Author:
Marcel Proust
Translator:
C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Author:
Terence (TRN) Kilmartin
Author:
C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
Author:
Marcel Proust
Author:
C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
Translator:
Terence Kilmartin
Translator:
Terence Kilmartin
Translator:
Terence Kilmartin
Translator:
Terence Kilmartin
Translator:
Terence Kilmartin
Translator:
Terence Kilmartin
Translator:
Terence Kilmartin
Subject:
France Social life and customs Fiction.
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Continental european fiction (fictional works
Subject:
Autobiographical fiction

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