Marcel proust swann in love6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The first volume of the work established Marcel Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age-satirical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition. As he tries to understand his life, he realizes that it is inseparable from the lives of others-his parents, his grandmother, the family's servant Fran oise, and family acquaintances, including Charles Swann. In looking back at his own life, the narrator confronts the question of what exactly an individual's identity consists of. By remembering Swann's love affair with the coquette Odette, the narrator gains insight into his life and the nature of love itself. The narrator's recollections about his own life lead him inevitably to the past of Charles Swann, a family friend the narrator knew as a child. The novel begins with the narrator's efforts to recapture and understand his own past, by the taste of a madeleine soaked in tea. It is the first volume of the seven books that comprise In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu, 1913-1927). First published in 1913, Swann's Way by Marcel Proust is one of the most enthralling reading experiences of the twentieth century. ![]()
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