In this opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator seems at first to be launching a fairly traditional life-story. But after the prelude the narrator travels backwards rather than forwards in time, in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette, together with the comic antics of the Verdurins and the adoring members of their 'little clan', provide a prophetic model of the narrator's own love-relationships and peregrinations in salon society. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.

Swann's Way

Literature & Fiction

Proust. Marcel

Classics

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Marcel Proust, selected letters, 1880-1903

Collins

This is the second volume of Marcel Proust's selected letters and covers the period 1904-1909. It includes correspondence to H. Gauthier-Villars, Lucien Daudet, Anatole France, Albert Sorel, Maurice Barres, Gabriel de la Rochefoucauld, Madame Straus, Robert Dreyfus, his mother and many others.

Marcel Proust - Selected Letters: 1904-1909

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

<p>No. 102 Boulevard Haussmann is an elegant address in the eighth arrondissement of Paris. Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp; downstairs, Marcel Proust is trying to write In Search of Lost Time. Between 1909 and 1919, a correspondence that starts with a request for silence develops into a touching friendship, discussing books, music, domestic arrangements, illness, and the sadness of losing friends in the war.</p>

Letters to the Lady Upstairs

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Fourth Estate

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them." Reading was, for Marcel Proust, more than the pursuit of knowledge: a truly spiritual activity, it was a means of transforming and transcending the self. By reading great authors, he contends, we not only learn of great ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world’s most inspirational minds.

On Reading

translated and edited by Autret, Jean and Burforf,William

Essays & Correspondence

The Macmillan Co.

<p>Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Introduction by Lewis Galantiere</p>

Literary

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Modern Classics 02 Rememberance Of Things Past

Penguin Classic

Modern Classics 03 Remembrance Of Things Past (Penguin Modern Classics) (v. 3) [Jul 05, 1983] Proust, Marcel ...

Modern Classics 03 Remembrance Of Things Past

Swann's Way Book One of Remembrance of Things Past

Swanns Way

Penguin Uk

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