Marcel Proust

Swann's Way is Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece and the first part of the multivolume audiobook Remembrance of Things Past....

When the taste of a tea-soaked madeleine sends the narrator spiraling into recollections of his childhood in Combray, everyday life becomes something stranger and more profound: a landscape shaped by obsession, longing, social performance, and the fragile architecture of time itself.

Swann's Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust's seven-volume magnum opus In Search of Lost Time....

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....

In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette....

When the narrator of Swann's Way dips a petite madeleine into hot tea, the act transports him to his childhood in the French town of Combray. Out of his Pandora's box of reflections comes a memory of an old family friend, Swann....

Swann’s Way is the first and best-known part of Proust’s monumental work, Remembrance of Things Past....

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature....

The young narrator, experiencing his youthful sexuality, falls under the spell of a group of adolescent girls....

Newly discovered stories from one of the great storytellers of the 20th century. Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his...

Accidentally witnessing an encounter between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien, the narrator’s eyes are opened to a world hidden from him until now; he suspects that Albertine is attracted to her own sex....

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature....

Du côté de chez Swann est le premier tome de À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust, une œuvre essentielle qui explore les thèmes de la mémoire, de l'amour et du passage du temps.

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Faut-il manger pour vivre, ou vivre pour manger ? La madeleine de Proust est-elle vraiment celle que l'on croit ? La trompe d'éléphant est-elle comestible...

The narrator penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes....

Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus....

One of the most significant literary events of the century, the discovery of manuscript pages containing early drafts of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time put an end to a decades-long search for the Proustian grail. The Paris publisher Bernard de Fallois claimed to have viewed the folios...

Après des études littéraires perturbées par une santé fragile, le jeune Marcel Proust passe une licence de lettres et de philosophie, une autre de droit mais sans désir de carrière. Cependant dès l'adolescence, paraissent en revue des nouvelles, pastiches, portraits, essais et poèmes en...

Solo quando ci ammaliamo ci rendiamo conto di non vivere soli, ma incatenati a un essere di un altro regno...