Swann's Way (Version 2)
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1922
English
- Overture, Section 01
- Overture, Section 02
- Overture, Section 03
- Overture, Section 04
- Overture, Section 05
- Overture, Section 06
- Overture, Section 07
- Combray, Section 01
- Combray, Section 02
- Combray, Section 03
- Combray, Section 04
- Combray, Section 05
- Combray, Section 06
- Combray, Section 06
- Combray, Section 07
- Combray, Section 08
- Combray, Section 09
- Combray, Section 10
- Combray, Section 11
- Combray, Section 12
- Combray, Section 13
- Combray, Section 14
- Combray, Section 15
- Combray, Section 16
- Combray, Section 17
- Combray, Section 18
- Combray, Section 19
- Combray, Section 20
- Swann in Love, Section 01
- Swann in Love, Section 02
- Swann in Love, Section 03
- Swann in Love, Section 04
- Swann in Love, Section 05
- Swann in Love, Section 06
- Swann in Love, Section 07
- Swann in Love, Section 08
- Swann in Love, Section 09
- Swann in Love, Section 10
- Swann in Love, Section 11
- Swann in Love, Section 12
- Swann in Love, Section 13
- Swann in Love, Section 14
- Swann in Love, Section 15
- Swann in Love, Section 16
- Swann in Love, Section 17
- Swann in Love, Section 18
- Swann in Love, Section 19
- Swann in Love, Section 20
- Swann in Love, Section 21
- Swann in Love, Section 22
- Swann in Love, Section 23
- Swann in Love, Section 24
- Swann in Love, Section 25
- Swann in Love, Section 26
- Place Names: The Name, Section 01
- Place Names: The Name, Section 02
- Place Names: The Name, Section 03
- Place Names: The Name, Section 04
- Place Names: The Name, Section 05
- Place Names: The Name, Section 06
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." From the very first page the reader is drawn into the many facets of memory, memory as prompted by all the human senses. "Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann, sometimes translated as The Way by Swann's) (1913) was rejected by a number of publishers, including Fasquelle, Ollendorff, and the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF). André Gide was famously given the manuscript to read to advise NRF on publication, and leafing through the seemingly endless collection of memories and philosophizing or melancholic episodes, came across a few minor syntactic errors, which made him decide to turn the work down in his audit. Proust eventually arranged with the publisher Grasset to pay the cost of publication himself. When published it was advertised as the first of a three-volume novel (Bouillaguet and Rogers, 316-7). Du côté de chez Swann is divided into four parts: "Combray I" (sometimes referred to in English as the "Overture"), "Combray II," "Un Amour de Swann," and "Noms de pays: le nom." ('Names of places: the name'). A third-person novella within Du côté de chez Swann, "Un Amour de Swann" is sometimes published as a volume by itself. As it forms the self-contained story of Charles Swann's love affair with Odette de Crécy and is relatively short, it is generally considered a good introduction to the work and is often a set text in French schools. "Combray I" is also similarly excerpted; it ends with the famous madeleine cake episode, introducing the theme of involuntary memory. In early 1914, André Gide, who had been involved in NRF's rejection of the book, wrote to Proust to apologize and to offer congratulations on the novel. "For several days I have been unable to put your book down.... The rejection of this book will remain the most serious mistake ever made by the NRF and, since I bear the shame of being very much responsible for it, one of the most stinging and remorseful regrets of my life." - Summary by Wikipedia (edited by Expatriate)
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