num_pages: 615
description: In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece 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.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 definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
language: English
title: Swann's Way
titlecomplete: Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
characters: Mme Swann, Narrator/Marcel, Françoise de Combray, Charles Swann, Baron de Charlus, Madame Verdurin, Cottard, Odette de Crécy, Gilberte Swann
genres: 20th Century, Unfinished, Philosophy, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 58236
places: Paris, Combray, France
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: French-American Foundation Translation Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Премія «Сковорода»
publisher: Modern Library