Swann's way

Occasionally we find books so beautifully written that it seems the style, not the plot, keeps us turning pages. Though translated from its original French, Swann’s Way did not lose its beaut…

Swann's Way by Proust, used in the movie On the Road by W. Salles.

Swann's Way : In Search Of Lost Time (Du Côté De Chez Swann...

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READERS GUIDE Questions and Topics for Discussion INTRODUCTION In his achievement as a novelist, Marcel Proust stands alone. Swann’s Way is one of seven books that comprise In Search of Lost Time ( A la recherche du temps perdu , 1913-1927), unique in fiction for its sustained fullness of thought and richness of characterization. Though In Search of Lost Time is saturated with details of French bourgeois and aristocratic life at the turn of the century, it retains its freshness for readers…

This graphic adaptation of Swann's Way captures the distinct feel of the author

Marcel Proust quote about memory from Swann's Way: “But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop…

Swann's Way - Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust quote about science from Swann's Way: “He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, of which they make no use in the specialised work of their profession, but by which their conversation profits.”