num_pages: 519
description: In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.
language: English
title: Swann's Way
titlecomplete: Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #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: 58251
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: Vintage Publishing