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Swann's Way: The First Volume of In Search of Lost Time
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515433170
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The opening volume of Marcel Proust's extended novel sequence examining memory, perception, and the passage of time. In Swann's Way, the first part of In Search of Lost Time, Proust establishes the narrative method that defines the work as a whole, moving between recollection and present awareness to reconstruct experience through detail and association.
The novel develops through a series of reflections anchored in childhood memory, social observation, and the gradual unfolding of Swann's relationship with Odette. Proust's prose is deliberate and expansive, attentive to the subtleties of sensation and the shifting nature of perception. Events are not presented as fixed occurrences but as experiences shaped by memory and interpretation.
Regarded as a central work of modernist literature, Swann's Way introduces the themes and structures that sustain the larger sequence. It remains essential to the study of twentieth-century fiction, notable for its sustained attention to interior life and its reconfiguration of narrative form.
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