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Swann's Way

Swann's Way - Vintage International

1st Vintage international Edition

Paperback (13 Mar 1989)

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Publisher's Synopsis

From the French novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of his monumental masterpiece, one of the most sensitive renderings of childhood in fiction and a brilliant meditation on the recreation of the past through art and memory. 

Swann's Way is the most frequently read part of Proust's epic novel, Remembrance of Things Past (also known as In Search of Lost Time). It introduces subjects that resonate throughout the entire work, including the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte, Swann's jealous passion for Odette, and the rise of the nouveaux-riches Verdurins. Proust's narrator vividly recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, most famously in a fraught evocation of his mother's good-night kiss and in the iconic scene where the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea brings back a flood of memory.

Book information

ISBN: 9780679720096
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Vintage international Edition
DEWEY: 843.912
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 472
Weight: 466g
Height: 134mm
Width: 204mm
Spine width: 36mm