Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past, book one - Softcover

Proust, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141180587 ISBN 13: 9780141180588

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1998

Synopsis

"Swann's Way", the first book in Proust's monumental "Remembrance of Things Past", introduces such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories.

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From the Back Cover:

In the overture to Swann's Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.

From the Inside Flap:

The first and best known volume of one of the landmarks of world literature. Available separately for those who want to approach Proust carefully!
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0141180587
• ISBN 13: 9780141180588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496