Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way, Part 2 (Classic Collection)

Marcel Proust

ISBN 10: 1491573562 / ISBN 13: 9781491573563

Published by The Classic Collection, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way, Part 2 (Classic Collection)
• Publisher: The Classic Collection
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491573562
• ISBN 13: 9781491573563
• Binding: mp3_cd
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Part two of the first volume in Marcel Proust's epic novel The Remembrance of Things Past

Here is the conclusion to Swann's Way, Proust's supreme masterpiece. In it, Proust recalls the early youth of Charles Swann in the small town of Combray as seen through the eyes of the narrator. It then shifts to Swann himself, now a fashionable man caught up in turn-of-the-century Paris and a tortured love affair. A scathing, often comic dissection of French society, it is also a portrait of the artist and a discovery of the aesthetic by which the portrait is painted.

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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.