Marcel Proust
Paperback | Pages: 492 pages Rating: 4.14 | 41332 Users | 3214 Reviews
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| Title | : | Swann's Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #1) |
| Author | : | Marcel Proust |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 492 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 2004 by Penguin Classics (first published November 14th 1913) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Crime. Mystery Thriller. Drama |
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Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his fear of going to bed at night. He is a creature of habit and dislikes waking up in the middle of the night not knowing where he is.He claims that people are defined by the objects that surround them and must piece together their identities bit by bit each time they wake up. The young Marcel is so nervous about sleeping alone that he looks forward to his mother's goodnight kisses, but also dreads them as a sign of an impending sleepless night. One night, when Charles Swann, a friend of his grandparents, is visiting, his mother cannot come kiss him goodnight. He stays up until Swann leaves, and looks so sad and pitiful that even his disciplinarian father encourages "Mamma" to spend the night in Marcel's room.
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| Original Title: | Du côté de chez Swann |
| ISBN: | 0142437964 (ISBN13: 9780142437964) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | À la recherche du temps perdu #1 |
| Characters: | Narrator/Marcel, Baron de Charlus, Mme Swann, Gilberte Swann, Cottard, Odette de Crécy, Charles Swann, Françoise de Combray, Madame Verdurin |
| Setting: | France Combray(France) Balbec(France) …more Paris(France) …less |
| Literary Awards: | French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction (2003), Премія «Сковорода» (2001) |
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Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentenceMy great adventure is really Proust. Wellwhat remains to be written after that? Im only in the first volume, and there are, I suppose, faults to be found, but I am in a state of amazement; as if a miracle were being done before my eyes. How, at last, has someone solidified what has always escapedand made it too into this beautiful and perfectly enduring substance? One has to put the book down and gasp. Theso i figured i would finally read me some proust, get in touch with my roots or whatnot. and i have to say, for my introduction, it was kind of a mixed bag. the first part i had real problems with. i am not a fan of precocious or sensitive children, so the whole first part was kind of a wash for me. i know, that's terrible, right?? here is this Monument of Great Literature, and i am annoyed, as though i were watching some children's production of oklahoma, or any musical, really. (shudder) there
Swanns Way by Marcel ProustProust! Memories! Almost 3,000 reviews so I thought I would simply give examples of his writing if you have not read him before. Beautiful writing, lyrical, complex, maybe even occasionally convoluted. First the famous passage about madeleines:And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of a little piece of the madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her
Thank you for the recommendation, Czarny. This review dates from 2013, so you see I completed the Recherche long since. Someone actually lent me the
As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.~ James Joyce, UlyssesThe Universe is the externalization of the soul.~ Emerson To attempt to review this now would be like trying to review a book after finishing the first couple of chapters. There is no way to do justice to it, or to even be sure of what one is prattling on about. So seasoned readers, please do excuse any
"Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure."This phrase and the title of La Recherche has - in my opinion - been butchered many times as people have tried to translate Proust into English. I read it all in French - most French people do not even get past this first volume - and so I cannot really tell you whether the Moncrieff's translation is better than the Kilmartin's. I am not trying to be a snob, I am just saying that, like Ulysses, this work is so subtle and uses such a wide range of
PART ISpoilersFor reasons that will become apparent, my review focuses not on the plot of the novel, but on its style and themes.If you want to develop your own relationship with these aspects of the novel, then it might be better to turn away now.This is partly why I paid little attention to the excellent discussion group at Proust 2013, before writing my review.Swanns Way is one of the most personal books ever written, and I want to define my personal relationship with it, without viewing it
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