Marcel Proust
Paperback | Pages: 492 pages Rating: 4.14 | 41332 Users | 3214 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Du côté de chez Swann |
| ISBN: | 0142437964 (ISBN13: 9780142437964) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | À la recherche du temps perdu #1 |
| Characters: | Narrator/Marcel, Baron de Charlus, Mme Swann, Gilberte Swann, Cottard, Odette de Crécy, Charles Swann, Françoise de Combray, Madame Verdurin |
| Setting: | France Combray(France) Balbec(France) …more Paris(France) …less |
| Literary Awards: | French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction (2003), Премія «Сковорода» (2001) |
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Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his fear of going to bed at night. He is a creature of habit and dislikes waking up in the middle of the night not knowing where he is.He claims that people are defined by the objects that surround them and must piece together their identities bit by bit each time they wake up. The young Marcel is so nervous about sleeping alone that he looks forward to his mother's goodnight kisses, but also dreads them as a sign of an impending sleepless night. One night, when Charles Swann, a friend of his grandparents, is visiting, his mother cannot come kiss him goodnight. He stays up until Swann leaves, and looks so sad and pitiful that even his disciplinarian father encourages "Mamma" to spend the night in Marcel's room.
Present Of Books Swann's Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #1)
| Title | : | Swann's Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #1) |
| Author | : | Marcel Proust |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 492 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 2004 by Penguin Classics (first published November 14th 1913) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Crime. Mystery Thriller. Drama |
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Ratings: 4.14 From 41332 Users | 3214 ReviewsAppraise Of Books Swann's Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #1)
I hope you enjoy it. Try to read the Tadié biography if you can. It sorts out the confusing sections towards the end of the cycle.Gabi wrote: "Sentences made of hurricanes and dust"I was equally blown away!
so i figured i would finally read me some proust, get in touch with my roots or whatnot. and i have to say, for my introduction, it was kind of a mixed bag. the first part i had real problems with. i am not a fan of precocious or sensitive children, so the whole first part was kind of a wash for me. i know, that's terrible, right?? here is this Monument of Great Literature, and i am annoyed, as though i were watching some children's production of oklahoma, or any musical, really. (shudder) there
Lovely review, Ian, full of personal insights : 'His sentences dont just perpetrate meaning, they perpetuate meaning and beauty into perpetuity.' You
Those consumed by the wasting torments of merciless love/ Haunt the sequestered alleys and myrtle groves that give them - VirgilAt first you avoid it as if nothing is happening- the prose is so dense that you feel anxious that initial pages are just about the narrators issues with sleeping- For a long time, I went to bed early. Sometimes, my candle scarcely out, my eyes would close so quickly that I did not have time to say to myself: Im falling asleep. But then as you brave through first few
Those consumed by the wasting torments of merciless love/ Haunt the sequestered alleys and myrtle groves that give them - VirgilAt first you avoid it as if nothing is happening- the prose is so dense that you feel anxious that initial pages are just about the narrators issues with sleeping- For a long time, I went to bed early. Sometimes, my candle scarcely out, my eyes would close so quickly that I did not have time to say to myself: Im falling asleep. But then as you brave through first few
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