Swann's Way (Summarized Edition)

Swann's Way opens In Search of Lost Time with three movements: childhood reveries in Combray; the anatomy of jealousy in "Swann in Love"; and the desire-saturated toponyms of "Place-Names." Proust's long sentences, free indirect discourse, and phenomenology of perception install a modernist epic of consciousness. Set amid Belle Époque salons, the book displaces event with memory, showing how habit...