
In Search of Lost Time
Book 2 of Swann's Way
- 550 pages · about 9 hours
- First published 1919
- 81 editions
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1 About this book
Swann in Love (French: Un amour de Swann) is a section from the novel sequence In Search of Lost Time by the French writer Marcel Proust. This narrative is included in Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann), the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, which was published in 1913.
Un amour de Swann is about the love affair between Charles Swann and Odette. The story is largely self-contained and is novella-length. For these reasons, various publishers have printed Un amour de Swann as a stand-alone volume. For example, it is included in the Encyclopedia Britannica series 'Great Books of the Western World' in the first of two volumes dedicated to the 'Imaginative Literature of the Twentieth Century' as a stand-alone work.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: a classic, a coming-of-age story, and a long read.
- Classics
- Coming of age
- Relationships
- Social life and customs
- Villages
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Indexes
- PRO Gotham Book Mart
2 About Marcel Proust
3 More by Marcel Proust
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