Title : Swann's Way - Marcel Proust - book
Summary :
The Narrator remembers the child he once was. The wait for his mother's goodnight kiss, Sunday lunches at Aunt Léonie's, his grandmother's gifts. He is fascinated by Mr. Swann, a friend of his parents, madly in love with a woman who loves everyone except him. He falls in love with her daughter, Gilberte, who will not make him any happier. Through these scenes of life—intimate or mundane, tragic or comic—pass impressions, scents, visions. Water lilies on the surface of a river, a madeleine forgotten in a cup of tea, catleyas in the hair of a beloved woman, an agate marble offered as a token of friendship... But, once an adult, how can one remain that child filled with wonder in a world one no longer recognizes, where love is suffering, where desire is jealousy, where "the memory of a certain image is only the regret of a certain moment"? Reminiscences of lost childhood, a novel of impossible love, a satire of high society imprisoned in the ephemeral nature of fashion, but also a philosophical study on involuntary memory: Swann's Way is all of these things at once. What is a masterpiece? A palace of memory, with a thousand entrances, where each reader experiences a singular emotion, always renewed.
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EAN : 9782070379248
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