Partly. 'Swann's Way's' plot is somewhat autobiographical. Many of the recollections, as well as the narrator's hopes and concerns, are things Proust himself hoped he could remember from his adolescence. However, Proust was adamant that an author's life had very little to do with his or her literary creations. Thus, paradoxically, his goal in writing 'Swann's Way' was to draw from his own experiences while keeping as much of his identity separate from that of the character Marcel.