Fiction · 1913
Swann’s Way
Marcel Proust · translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
The narrator, waking in the dark, cannot tell where he is; a madeleine dipped in tea brings back the whole town of Combray; and between childhood and the present lies “Swann in Love”, the story of a connoisseur’s ruinous passion. Swann’s Way (1913) is the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
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1871–1922 · Modern
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was born in Paris, the son of a professor of medicine, and after a youth spent in society and in the writing of essays and pastiches withdrew, in failing health, to write In Search of Lost Time. Its first volume, Swann’s Way, was published at his own expense in 1913; the second won the Prix Goncourt in 1919; the last three volumes appeared after his death.
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