Swanns Verden 1 by Marcel Proust
A reflective narrator recalls childhood evenings in a provincial town, where sensory memories—most famously triggered by a taste—unlock long-hidden impressions of family, habit, and the passage of time; woven through these recollections is a parallel tale of a cultivated man’s obsessive, socially fraught love affair that exposes the hypocrisies and intricate codes of Belle Époque society, and the work meditates on memory, desire, jealousy, and the subtle mechanisms by which the past reshapes the present.
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- Published
- 1913
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 300-400
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- Du côté de chez Swann
- Swann's Way
- Swanns verden
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