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In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. This is Part 1. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette, and their daughter, Gilberte, becomes the adolescent narrator's playmate and tantalizing love-object. We move from Paris to the seaside town of Balbec, from ritualized social performances to midsummer spontaneity, and from Gilberte to her successor Al...

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The first half of the novel which began Marcel Proust's ambitious seven-volume work Proust is widely considered one of the greatest authors of all time, and The Remembrance of Things Past is recognized as his most prominent work. In this first part of Swann's Way, Proust paints an unforgettable, scathing, and, at times, comic portrait of French society at the close of the 19th century, and reveals a profound vision of obsessive love. This nove...