In Search Of Lost Times Volume 1

In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form. In the opening volume of Proust''s great novel, the narrator travels backwards 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 provides a prophetic model of the narrator''s own relationships. All Proust''s great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.

• | Author: Marcel Proust
• | Publisher: Everyman
• | Publication Date: Jun 29, 2001
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781841598963
• | ISBN-10: 1841598968