Guermantes' Verden 2 by Marcel Proust
A young narrator is drawn deeper into the glittering but hollow world of Parisian aristocracy, gaining access to salons and intimate circles where manners, gossip and social display mask vanity and cruelty; through acute observation of personalities and conversations he exposes the pretensions, jealousies and power dynamics that govern high society. As he pursues an idealized attraction to a celebrated duchess and seeks intellectual and emotional belonging, his attention repeatedly returns to the workings of memory, art and time, revealing how perception reshapes reality. The narrative combines vivid social portraiture with subtle psychological insight, charting the slow disillusionment that accompanies the loss of illusion and the dawning recognition of the gap between surface charm and inner truth.
- Published
- 1921
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- Guermantes' Verden
- Le Côté de Guermantes
- The Guermantes Way
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