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Additionally, tea and madeleine cakes bring back memories of his youth in Combray, his hometown. Swann is a prominent member of the narrator’s society and a wealthy Jewish man. For instance, while the narrator considers falling asleep, he is reminded of the time he missed his mother’s goodnight kiss because his parents had Charles Swann over for dinner. ‘Swann’s Way’s’ narrator experiences a lot of flashbacks and recollections that are brought on by references to his past. He finished writing ‘Swann’s Way’ in 1913, just before World War One began. The war slowed down his publishing, and he wrote all eight volumes of his novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’ but didn’t complete revising the last three.

Protagonist(s): Marcel and Charles Swannįrench novelist Marcel Proust grew up in the country’s belle epoque period, which saw France restore and add to its splendor following an embarrassing loss to the Prussians in 1871.Third-person narration is used to describe occasions in the life of Charles Swann, a family friend of the narrator. Perspective and Narrator: ‘Swann’s Way’s’ first-person narrator reflects on his youth.Tense: ‘Swann’s Way’ uses the past tense to describe events and the present tense to provide philosophical insights.Genre: Modernism, Classic, Historical and Literary Fiction.In French, ‘À la recherche du temps perdu’.

Book Series Title: ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (or ‘In Remembrance of Things Past’).

Book title: ‘ Swann’s Way’ (Du côté de chez).

Proust’s naturally pessimistic perspective on love, which he frequently treats as an illusion rather than recognition in his writing, enables him to relate the romance’s plot with the minute attention and upside-down dramatic scale of a clinician monitoring symptoms, even using words like “disease” and “convalesce.” In ‘Swann’s Way’ a family friend of Marcel’s is depicted as being hopelessly in love with Odette de Crécy, a coquette. An unnamed narrator who is assumed to be the author tells the story of ‘Swann’s Way’. This is volume one of a seven-volume French memoir that has been translated into English and made available in several editions. ‘In Search of Lost Time’ explores the passage of time and the absence of meaning in the world as it follows the narrator’s memories of childhood and experiences into adulthood in high-society France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.