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Synopsis
In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. This is Part 1.
Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette, and their daughter, Gilberte, becomes the adolescent narrator's playmate and tantalizing love-object.
We move from Paris to the seaside town of Balbec, from ritualized social performances to midsummer spontaneity, and from Gilberte to her successor Albertine.
In Balbec, the narrator is befriended by the painter Elstir who introduces him both to the craft of painting and to the mysterious 'little band' of girls. An artistic education is thus intricately interwoven with a journey of sexual self-discovery.
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About the Author
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist best known for his three thousand–page masterpiece In Search of Lost Time—also translated as Remembrance of Things Past—a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style. He was active in Parisian high society during the latter decades of the nineteenth century, and he was welcomed in the most fashionable salons of his day. Toward the end of the 1890s, Proust began to withdraw from society, and although never entirely reclusive, he lapsed further into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. He was plagued by terror of his own death and was especially afraid that it would come before he could complete his novel. The first volume came out in 1913, and Proust continued to work on his masterpiece right up until his death at the age of fifty-one. Today he is recognized as one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century.
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- PublisherThe Classic Collection
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1501229311
- ISBN 13 9781501229312
- BindingMP3 CD
- LanguageEnglish
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