num_pages: 533
description: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.First time in Penguin ClassicsA Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionThe first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s, following Lydia Davis's brilliant translation of Swann's Way 
language: English
title: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
titlecomplete: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
characters: Albertine Simonet, Narrator/Marcel, Charles Swann, Baron de Charlus, Odette de Crécy, Gilberte Swann, Robert de Saint-Loup
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 14369
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
awards: awardedAt: -1609430400000
name: Prix Goncourt, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Премія «Сковорода»
publisher: Penguin Classics