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Published in French in 1913, Swann's Way opens Marcel Proust's seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time. It moves between the narrator's childhood memories around Combray and the unhappy love affair of Charles Swann and Odette de Crécy. These strands introduce a work concerned with how experience c...
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Central modernist masterpiece acclaimed for psychological insight, memory, style, and influence; formidable sentence structure and deliberate pacing limit broad accessibility.
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Published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a narrator through French social life from the late nineteenth century into the First World War. Encounters with aristocratic society share space with intimate examinations of desire and self-understandi...
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One of world literature's supreme novels, enormous critical consensus, foundational treatment of memory, time, and art.
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