Swann's Way
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
At the heart of one of literature's most celebrated achievements lies a single, luminous memory: the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea that unlocks a torrent of recollection spanning a lifetime. Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part cycle In Search of Lost Time, chronicles the narrator Marcel's childhood in the village of Combray, his burgeoning aesthetic sensibilities, and the consuming, destructive passion of his neighbour Charles Swann for the elusive courtesan Odette de Crécy — a love affair rendered with devastating psychological precision and a tenderness that never softens its tragic truth. Proust's prose is an architecture unto itself: vast, sinuous sentences that enact the very process of memory, refusing to distinguish between the trivial and the profound because, in his vision, no such distinction exists. Translated here with masterful fidelity by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, and illustrated by Malcolm Liepke in this prestigious Franklin Library edition, the text retains the full weight of its original French grandeur. A cornerstone of 20th-century Modernism, Swann's Way does not merely depict consciousness — it becomes it, leaving the reader forever altered in their understanding of time, desire, and the redemptive power of art.
Author: Marcel Proust
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
At the heart of one of literature's most celebrated achievements lies a single, luminous memory: the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea that unlocks a torrent of recollection spanning a lifetime. Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part cycle In Search of Lost Time, chronicles the narrator Marcel's childhood in the village of Combray, his burgeoning aesthetic sensibilities, and the consuming, destructive passion of his neighbour Charles Swann for the elusive courtesan Odette de Crécy — a love affair rendered with devastating psychological precision and a tenderness that never softens its tragic truth. Proust's prose is an architecture unto itself: vast, sinuous sentences that enact the very process of memory, refusing to distinguish between the trivial and the profound because, in his vision, no such distinction exists. Translated here with masterful fidelity by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, and illustrated by Malcolm Liepke in this prestigious Franklin Library edition, the text retains the full weight of its original French grandeur. A cornerstone of 20th-century Modernism, Swann's Way does not merely depict consciousness — it becomes it, leaving the reader forever altered in their understanding of time, desire, and the redemptive power of art.