In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way (Paperback)

Paperback. This is the first part of 'A La recherche du temps perdu', Marcel Proust's seven-part cycle and it is the most up-to-date translation available. In it, Proust introduces the themes that run through the entire work.This recalls the early youth of Charles Swann in the small provincial backwater of Combray and his tortured love affair. The only paperback edition of the definitive translation of the first part of Marcel Proust's legendary seven-part cycle. In part one, the narrator recalls his childhood, aided by the famous tea-soaked madeleine; M. Swann describes his passion for Odette. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.