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Swann's way, part one

"Swann's Way," the first book in Proust's monumental Remembrance of Things Past, introduces such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories.

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  • "Simon Callow reads Swann's way"

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  • ""Swann's Way," the first book in Proust's monumental Remembrance of Things Past, introduces such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories."@en
  • "[This volume] 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. 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."
  • "The first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and its narrator, then turns its focus to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris and a victim of an agonizing romance. Swann's Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust's seven-volume magnum opus Remembrance of Things Past ..."@en
  • "Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th century literature. Swann's Way is the first of seven volumes and sets the scene with the narrator's memories being famously provoked by the taste of that little cake, the madeleine, accompanied by a cup of lime-flowered tea. It is an unmatched portrait of fin-de-siecle France."
  • "The first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and its narrator, then turns its focus to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris, and a victim of an agonizing romance."@en
  • ""'Swann's way' forms the first part of Marcel Proust's magnificent autobiographical cycle 'Remembrance of things past.' Here, Proust's vision, psychological understanding and vivid powers of description combine to create one of the most poetic and magical works in all literature. For lovers of the original text there are new delights to be found in this audiobook version, while those discovering the work for the first time may be surprised to find it so accessible"--Container."@en
  • "The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of his family carries on with young Odette de Crecy."
  • "Swann's Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust's seven-volume magnum opus In Search of Lost Time. Following the narrator's opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth-century literature's most famous scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a "decoction of lime-flowers," the associative act from which the remainder of the narrative unfurls. After elaborate reminiscences about his childhood with relatives in rural Combray and in urban Paris, Proust's narrator recalls a story regarding Charles Swann, a major figure in his Combray childhood, and his escapades in nineteenth-century privileged Parisian society, revolving around his obsessive love for young socialite Odette de Crecy.Filled with searing, insightful, and humorous criticisms of French society, this novel showcases Proust's innovative prose style. With narration that alternates between first and third person, Swann's Way unconventionally introduces Proust's recurring themes of memory, love, art, and the human experience-and for nearly a century, audiences have deliciously savored each moment."@en
  • "Published in 1913, Swann's Way is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, "Remembrance of things past," one of the major achievements of 20th-century literature. The narrator discovers that an involuntary memory triggered by some casual action, say, eating a madeleine cake or stooping to remove one's shoe, has the power to recover large areas of the past, and he sets out to resurrect his past life and the people and places that most affected him."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. Proust's masterpiece ... occupies a place unique along great novels, in that it not a fiction but a creative autobiography ... though he invented nothing, he altered everything. His places and people are composite in space and time, constructed from various sources and widely separated periods of his life."
  • "Presents the first book of Proust's monumental work "Remembrance of Things Past", introducing such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories."@en
  • "Presents the first book of Proust's monumental work "Remembrance of Things Past", introducing such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories."
  • "Swann's way is the first novel of Marcel Proust's autobiographical series Remembrance of things past. He tells a narrative of places and people constructed from various sources and separate periods of time in his life."@en
  • "The introduction of a highly sensitive and imaginative child - the mother he loved, and from whom to be parted was such agony - and the father who, although loving in his own way, was incapable of understanding the emotional behavior of his delicate child."@en
  • "The first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and its narrator, then turns its focus to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris and a victim of an agonizing romance."@en
  • "The first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and its narrator, then turns its focus to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris and a victim of an agonizing romance."
  • "The first part of Marcel Proust's autobiographical cycle 'Remembrance of things past.' Here, Proust's vision, psychological understanding and vivid powers of description combine to create one of the most poetic and magical works in all literature."@en

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
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  • "History"
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
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  • "Swann's way, part one"@en
  • "Swann's way"
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  • "Swann's way [electronic resource]"@en
  • "Swann's Way"@en
  • "Swann's way Part two (Sound Recording)"@en
  • "Swann's way part one (Sound Recording)"@en

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