Swann’s Way: Part One

The first half of the novel which began Marcel Proust’s ambitious seven-volume work

Proust is widely considered one of the greatest authors of all time, and The Remembrance of Things Past is recognized as his most prominent work. In this first part of Swann’s Way, Proust paints an unforgettable, scathing, and, at times, comic portrait of French society at the close of the 19th century, and reveals a profound vision of obsessive love.