Swann's Way
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · November 1, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- Proust turns childhood impressions and a madeleine’s taste into a vivid meditation on memory and art.
- Themes
- Childhood and family impressions, Sexual jealousy, Memory and the past
- Genres
- 20th-Century French Fiction, The Classics, Literary Fiction
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Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood-a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel Swann's Love, an incomparable study of sexual jealousy, which becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time.
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The first volume of the book that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age-satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition-Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory.
Memory, Recast
Proust turns childhood impressions and a madeleine’s taste into a vivid meditation on memory and art.
Come here for
- A sensitive, satirical eye on family and neighbors
- Swann’s Love, a study of sexual jealousy
Expect
- The past brought dazzlingly back to life
- A varied, confiding voice with room to linger
Where it sits
| 20th-Century French Fiction | 78% |
|---|---|
| The Classics | 44% |
| Literary Fiction | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Time-Travel Romance
- Authors
- Marcel Proust
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- November 1, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Childhood and family impressions · Sexual jealousy · Memory and the past
- Reading lane
- Time-Travel Romance