In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann's Way

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679600053.

The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work. --VLADIMIR NABOKOV In the overture to Swanns Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrators childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrators love for Swanns daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swanns passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins. The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new French editions.