Swann's way
(Book)

Rev. ed. of the 1981 translation of Swann's Way, published in the U.S. by Random House and in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-610).

Both a psychological self-portrait and a profound meditation upon the artistic process, Proust's seven-part masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time changed the course of twentieth-century literature. "Swann's Way, the first volume, introduces the novel's major themes and the narrator, a sensitive man drawn in his youth to fashionable society. Its focus then shifts to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris and a victim of an agonizing romance. This masterly evocation of French society and its rendering of a search for a transcendental reality independent of time, ranks as a landmark of world literature.