Marcel Proust

Swann's Way is Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece and the first part of the multivolume audiobook Remembrance of Things Past....

The young narrator, experiencing his youthful sexuality, falls under the spell of a group of adolescent girls....

Marcel's suspicions regarding Albertine's lesbian desires lead to his keeping her a virtual prisoner in his Paris apartment. The Captive is a masterly portrayal of obessional jealousy...

Swann's Way is the first part of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past....

"Du côté de chez Swann" est à la fois l'ouverture de toute l'œuvre, et un roman complet, pourvu d'une conclusion, certes provisoire...

Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus....

Accidentally witnessing an encounter between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien, the narrator’s eyes are opened to a world hidden from him until now; he suspects that Albertine is attracted to her own sex....

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature....

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature....

When the narrator of Swann's Way dips a petite madeleine into hot tea, the act transports him to his childhood in the French town of Combray. Out of his Pandora's box of reflections comes a memory of an old family friend, Swann....

"À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs" se présente en deux parties : "Autour de Mme Swann", où le héros fréquente les Swann à Paris...

The narrator penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes....

La monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature....

"Du côté de chez Swann" et "Le temps retrouvé", au commencement et à la fin de l'œuvre, sont deux arches, parallèles dans leur construction et leur projet...

La primera parte de una obra maestra sobre al amor, las relaciones humanas y el devenir del tiempo....

Swann’s Way is the first and best-known part of Proust’s monumental work, Remembrance of Things Past....

Comme il y a une géométrie dans l'espace, il y a une psychologie dans le temps, où les calculs d'une psychologie plane ne seraient plus exacts...

"Le pépiement matinal des oiseaux semblait insipide à Françoise. Chaque parole des 'bonnes' la faisait sursauter ; incommodée par tous leurs pas"...

Swann’s Way is the first of seven volumes and sets the scene with the narrator’s memories being famously provoked by the taste of that little cake....

In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette....