num_pages: 400
description: 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. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1922 edition.
language: English
title: Swann's Way
titlecomplete: Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, #1)
characters: Cottard, Narrator/Marcel, Charles Swann, Odette de Crécy, Gilberte Swann, Madame Verdurin, Mme Swann, Françoise de Combray, Baron de Charlus
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Philosophy, Classic Literature, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 58239
places: Paris, France, Combray
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: French-American Foundation Translation Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Премія «Сковорода»
publisher: Dover Publications