by Marcel Proust · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081229167
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«Du côté de chez Swann» is the novel by Marcel Proust that opens «En busca del tiempo perdido», published by Flammarion in paperback (671 pages, in French).
The narrator starts from a sensation provoked by a madeleine dipped in tea to reconstruct his childhood in Combray. From there, involuntary memory gives way to a reflection on desire and the passage of time, with the figure of Swann as the central thread of the first part of Proust's great novel.
First volume of the series «À la recherche du temps perdu». Edition directed by Jean Milly, with a presentation by Bernard Brun and Anne Herschberg-Pierrot and an interview with Daniel Mendelsohn.
For readers of French literature and twentieth-century classics who want to start with the first volume of Proust's great novel.
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
