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Swann's Way of Remembrance of Things Past

By Marcel Proust

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| Paperback | 9781414260570

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The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.

--VLADIMIR NABOKOV


In the overture to Swann's WayContinue

The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.

--VLADIMIR NABOKOV


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.

The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new French editions.

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  • I totally loved this book. Proust capacity to describe every single detail of a scene, the interior life of the characters, and the exterior world they live in, is a constant stimulus to creativity. His book is a must for all those that want to exercise their writing skills.

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    ariadna73 said on Jun 7, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • It is quite a hard read since the book dictates the pace instead of the reader. Full of vivid and lucid descriptions of a bygone age. Quite fascinating if you are a francophile but if you want an action filled book, this one is not for you.

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    Ruby said on Jul 9, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • What can I say? This isn't a novel, it's a description of life. So real, painfully so, I found I could only take it in small-ish chunks.

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    sid_rw said on Jun 30, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • Tough slog, but with great beauty.

    I've never seen such long sentences and paragraphs in my life.

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    keithlaw said on Sep 9, 2006 | Add your feedback

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