Swanns Way (1913) is the first volume of Marcel Prousts sevenpart novel In Search of Lost Time. Written while Proust was virtually confined to his bedroom from a lifelong respiratory illness, Swanns Way is a story of memory, history, family, and romance from a master of Modernist literature. Praised by Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Chabon, and Graham Greene, In Search of Lost Time explores the nature of memory and time while illuminating the history of homosexuality in nineteenth century Europe. For a long time I used to go to bed early." Alone in his bedroom, the narrator meditates on sleep, dreams, and the passing of time. Spurred into memory by the taste of a madeleine dipped in a cup of lime blossom tea, he recalls his childhood in Combray, a rural village on the outskirts of Paris. Slowly, faces and names from the past come back to himhe recalls a neighbor named Swann, whose promising marriage proved disastrous his Jewish friend Bloch, who introduced him to literature and the walks he would take with his parents through the beautiful countryside. As he grows and learns, he begins to recognize the reality concealed by convention the secret liaisons between lovers the petty competitions of artists the fleeting nature of affection and lust alike. Written in flowing prose, Swanns Way is a masterpiece of twentieth century fiction that continues to entertain and astound over a century after it appeared in print.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has...

Binding: Paperback;420 pages; Publisher: Mint Editions; Classification: FYT; Weight: 598 g; Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 28

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