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Swann's Way

English translation · Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff

by Marcel Proust

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Waking in darkness, the narrator tries to recover his bearings through memories of bedrooms, family life and childhood fears. Marcel Proust's novel follows the movement of thought as sleep blurs the boundaries between past and present. A remembered room at Combray can become immediate again through the position of a body or the recollection of a lamp. These closely observed sensations give the opening its pace, with ordinary objects carrying the weight of personal history.

The book also turns toward French social life and the small negotiations of status. At dinner with Mme. Verdurin's circle, Swann casually mentions his influential acquaintances, prompting a comic exchange about invitations and the President's parties. The conversation shows how vanity and misunderstanding can change the meaning of a simple remark.

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Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time runs to something like a million and a quarter words across seven volumes, and Proust spent his last years in a cork-lined bedroom, asthmatic and nocturnal, expanding proofs until the printers despaired.

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Reading time
About 14 hours
Pages
308
Language
English
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