Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust · 1913
Classics · ranked #65 in category
The first volume of In Search of Lost Time begins with the narrator's inability to sleep, the memories unlocked by a madeleine dipped in tea, a childhood in Combray, and the story of Charles Swann's obsessive love for Odette de Crécy. Proust's great opening volume introduces the novel's central argument: that involuntary memory is the only reliable medium for recovering the past.
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