The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carried on w

Marcel recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice.

'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material o

A new translation of Marcel Proust's 1913 Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann), the first novel in the series In Search of Lost Time. This edition contains a n

Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' (In Search of Lost Time) is many things at once: a novel of education, a portrait of French society during the Third Re