Swann's Way

The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," is one of the most entertaining reading experiences and arguably one of the finest novel of the twentieth century. Being Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. Telling the story through his younger mind in a beautiful dream like prose the narrator tells of the romance of his country neighbor Monsieur Swann. The narrator tells of his hopeless infatuation with Swann's little daughter, Gilberte. Within this fragmented narrative the important themes of memory, time and art are woven skillfully though the story.